Thesaurus results for BELONG

belong

verb

bi-ˈlȯŋ

as in to stay

to have or be in a usual or proper place your shoes belong in the closet, not in the middle of the living room where people will trip on them

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as in to pertain

to be the property of a person or group of persons those textbooks belong to the school system and not to the students

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Recent Examples of belong This is also challenging you to redefine your personal power and reflect on your sense of belonging in the world. —

Valerie Mesa, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025 Houses as sites of memory and complicated belonging. —

Tom Crewe, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025 The heroine feels a sense of belonging; she is told that this is the home of her ancestors. —

Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025 Advertisement Four of the teams among the 12 did not belong there. —

Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for belong

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Fox has stayed lean and mean since selling most of its assets to Disney.

Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 10 Jan. 2025
But even after El Niño ended and a more moderate La Niña cycle took over, the oceans stayed hot, with sea surface temperatures from July to December 2024 entering the record books second only to the same period in 2023.

Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Jan. 2025