Thesaurus results for APPERTAINS

appertains

verb

present tense third-person singular of appertain

as in belongs

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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Relevance

as in pertains

to have a relation or connection list some of the things appertaining to public health

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An agent that confidently approves the wrong payment, escalates an unstable interaction or quietly talks a user into a bad decision belongs in a different category.

— Puneet Gaur, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Overheard Giving young people the understanding and choice to decide where tech belongs in their lives, and enough agency to shape what comes next, is a reason to have hope.

— Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026

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Most of the funding gap relates specifically to weapons purchases, Zelensky said, and future financing for Ukraine could come in the form of deals for sharing technology and joint drone production.

— Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
And then Mowbray relates some personal evidence of what has not changed — Middlesbrough’s attachment to football.

— Michael Walker, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

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These histories can be claimed for any site-specific artwork located in an outdoor setting, though their relevance applies differently from one example to another.

— Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
But again, this only applies if your flight is delayed by more than by more than three hours domestically or six hours internationally.

— Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026

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In his extensive writings, Lee refers almost exclusively to abstract artists.

— Barry Schwabsky, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Total testosterone is the entire amount of testosterone circulating in the body, both bound and unbound to proteins and is biologically active, while free testosterone refers only to the hormone not bound to proteins and is biologically active.

— Luis Martinez, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026

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