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belonged

Meaning

of Belong

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike. Benjamin Tucker

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else. Marilyn Monroe

Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined. Toni Morrison

The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them! Bill Haywood

As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her. Erma Bombeck

As long as a cock lives, it is said to have belonged to the child of the house; but when it is slaughtered for super, it is then that the real owner emerges. African Proverb

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