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as in to belong
to be the property of a person or group of persons the doctrine that the swath of land between the Atlantic and the Pacific naturally appertained to the United States

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    Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Nevertheless, the team have managed to label more than 7,000 images as potential objects which don’t belong on the seabed.
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  • Across the eastern Baltic states (an area pertaining to modern-day Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), there are even more examples of broken tools in Stone Age burials.
    Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The list pertains to jerseys officially licensed by the NFL Players Association.
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  • Decisions about which exemptions are made—as well as what related direct funding and tax incentives the government deploys—should be tethered to intensive monitoring of exposure to Chinese influence throughout the supply chain.
    Joel Thayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Once siloed domains with separate toolsets, these areas are now understood to be related.
    Bruce Kelley, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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  • The Goldilocks principle applies to ensuring that the soup is not too hot and not too cold.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Regional restrictions may apply.
    Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
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“Appertain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/appertain. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.

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