appertaining

present participle of appertain
1
as in belonging
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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  • Targets who were unable to clarify why they were being neglected felt greater threats to belonging, self-esteem and meaningfulness.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • From before the Revolution onward, physical punishment or even killing were ways to enforce belonging, to mark the boundary between insiders and outsiders, and to decide who had the right to govern.
    Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • Working Within The Trade And With Private Clients Enhancing and relating the company legacy is vitally important to Amenc, who started working for Golay Fils & Stahl in 2001.
    Kyle Roderick, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • In a statement, a lawyer for Ortiz said his client’s guilty plea was highly tailored, relating only to his transactions with Pérez in the context of concert performances.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2025
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  • As the pandemic is increasingly in the rear view mirror, many of the COVID era-policies pertaining to healthcare coverage have slowly fallen to the wayside.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Even if partners don’t agree on every single detail pertaining to religion or politics, most healthy couples nevertheless share a rudimentary worldview.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • The paper also highlights the potential of digital twins — virtual patient replicas that allow doctors to simulate treatments before applying them in real life.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • By applying Stoic principles, individuals can filter out the noise, focus on the controllable, and approach financial decisions with clarity rather than fear.
    Andrew Rosen, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Appertaining.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/appertaining. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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