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[ verb ] be a part or adjunct
Examples "the uniform looks like it belonged to a museum collection" Used in print (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)It is to this same tradition that most_of the creative figures in the last century and a half of American theology also belong . What makes this long and diverse tradition essentially one is that those who have belonged_to it have been profoundly in_earnest about being modern men in a distinctively modern_world . (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)La^utner , for his part , `` belonged_to the present-day race of small artists , who do not demand the utmost of themselves '' , and the bitter description of the type includes such epithets as `` wretched little poseurs '' , the devastating indictment `` they do not know how to be wretched decently and in_order '' , and the somewhat extreme prophecy , so_far not fulfilled : `` They will be destroyed '' . The highroad , one might say at_first , belongs_to life , while the way to the churchyard belongs_to death . The highroad , one might say at_first , belongs_to life , while the way to the churchyard belongs_to death . |
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