Thesaurus results for APPERTAINED

appertained

verb

past tense of appertain

as in belonged

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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as in related

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

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By then, the question of whether Arendt belonged chiefly to German or American intellectual life mattered less than the interplay in her soul between the two.

— David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
The March filing asks a federal judge to send the lawsuit back to Miami-Dade County Circuit Court, arguing that the case never belonged in federal court.

— Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026

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Founded in Israel, the company positions itself around space-resilient computing systems, including onboard processing, storage and communications-related capabilities.

— Ben Topor, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
While drug overdose deaths have dropped in recent years, alcohol- and drug-related disorders still kill more than 250,000 people every year.

— Brian Mann, NPR, 6 Aug. 2026

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Both pertained to the same player in a way that had some believing there could be an easy out to fill out a Heat roster thinned by the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026
The first had to do with his schedule and the second pertained to his social status.

— Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 25 July 2026

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When, in January 2018, Modi’s associates applied for new letters, a new official in charge asked for collateral in cash, ultimately exposing the alleged scam.

— Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
The latest awards reinforce how those engineering capabilities are being applied to torpedo reliability, submarine maintenance and the long-term readiness of America’s undersea fleet.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2026

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The transportation office referred inquiries to the superintendent's administrative assistant.

— Amanda Pitts, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
An administrative law judge referred a subpoena dispute to the full commission, reported on July 31, and the commissioners can take it up on August 12.

— Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

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