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as in related
to have a relation or connection
a person who is an expert in anything pertaining to the history of the American theater
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Recent Examples of pertained
Those special circumstance allegations include one for committing multiple murders and another for the killing of a witness, which Doyle said pertained to Virgen.
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City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
As one of his opening acts in office, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani swiftly reversed every executive order his predecessor, Eric Adams, signed after his indictment on federal corruption charges, including two that pertained to Israel.
—Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026
Reporters determined the spending pertained to the governor’s campaign against the amendments using a number of factors, including emails between the state and advertising firms, and the size and timing of the contracts.
—Miami Herald, 12 Dec. 2025
The court filing pertained to an ongoing custody battle between Shauntel and her previous husband, per ClickOrlando.
—Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 21 Nov. 2025
Within that, 86 percent of emissions (168,667 metric tons of CO2e) pertained to the manufacturing of its raw materials and finished goods—the equivalent of producing some 14 million pounds of ground beef.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 13 Nov. 2025
Nevertheless, the process exposed evidence that pertained to him.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Chatbots are known to validate users’ obsessions and delusions, and most of the litigation around this phenomenon has so far pertained to self-harm, as in the suits Jain has brought against OpenAI and Character Technologies.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
As one of his opening acts in office, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani swiftly reversed every executive order his predecessor, Eric Adams, signed after his indictment on federal corruption charges, including two that pertained to Israel.
—Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026
Reporters determined the spending pertained to the governor’s campaign against the amendments using a number of factors, including emails between the state and advertising firms, and the size and timing of the contracts.
—Miami Herald, 12 Dec. 2025
The court filing pertained to an ongoing custody battle between Shauntel and her previous husband, per ClickOrlando.
—Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 21 Nov. 2025
Within that, 86 percent of emissions (168,667 metric tons of CO2e) pertained to the manufacturing of its raw materials and finished goods—the equivalent of producing some 14 million pounds of ground beef.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 13 Nov. 2025
Nevertheless, the process exposed evidence that pertained to him.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Chatbots are known to validate users’ obsessions and delusions, and most of the litigation around this phenomenon has so far pertained to self-harm, as in the suits Jain has brought against OpenAI and Character Technologies.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pertained
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One sound belonged 200 miles away at the Grand Ole Opry.—
Joe Sills,
Forbes.com,
17 Jan. 2026
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Her central downtown location, which is around the block from the Camden County Police Department, protects some of the children who, at one point, belonged in gangs.—
Brandon Goldner,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Indeed, the full account of his background and antics, as related in Prospect by Alan Rusbridger, the former editor of the Guardian, offers a disturbing glimpse of the rapid Trumpification of British political and journalistic culture.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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In response, leaders revised the amendment’s language and scheduled the second vote for a Saturday to reduce transportation and work-related obstacles.—
Daniel I. Dorfman,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
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The White House referred questions from NPR about the status of that review to the OMB.—
Rebecca Hersher,
NPR,
23 Jan. 2026
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Jazzlyn Johnson, a spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office, declined to comment and referred all questions on the decision to the news release that announced the decision not to file criminal charges.—
Ben Wheeler,
Kansas City Star,
23 Jan. 2026
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Whether analysts value that outcome as a $10 reduction in individual risk added up across everyone, or as a $10 million value directly applied to the life saved is mathematically identical.—
James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Almost immediately after oversight of TikTok’s US operations changed, misinformation started to spread about changes to the app’s new terms of service, including those that applied to location sharing and data collection, Fiesler said.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
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