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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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Recent Examples of appertain Ah, but a, b, and c above do not appertain to cancer. John Rosemond, charlotteobserver, 11 May 2017
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    Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Donald Arthur Mattingly belongs in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
    Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2025
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  • The recall pertains to certain four-packs of Martinelli's 10-ounce round glass apple juice bottles sold across 28 states.
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  • Charges pertaining to the fourth victim, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, were brought in January of this year.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2025
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  • Engineering strength depends on an interpretive framework that relates forces, the size of an object and their ratio − which represents mechanical stress.
    Zachary del Rosario, The Conversation, 18 Apr. 2025
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  • The proposal would apply to single parents earning up to $100,000 per year and couples earning up to $200,000 per year.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2025
  • If an institution like Harvard cannot resist tyranny when applied to it, then who can? KARL (voice-over): The Ivy League University refuses Trump's latest demands, putting billions in federal funding on the line.
    ABC News, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2025

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“Appertain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/appertain. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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