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appertaining

verb

present participle of appertain

as in belonging

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 relating

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

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These connections form an invisible architecture of care and belonging.

— PhotoVogue, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2026
Instead, Joe’s bureaucratic limbo provides a route into questions of usefulness, intimacy and belonging, combining an absurdist view of the future with a warmer, more humanist register.

— Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 28 Aug. 2026

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However, a felony and four misdemeanor charges pertaining to domestic violence were dropped.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
But technically, there is no rule pertaining to a player going from an SEC school to the NFL, and then back to another conference program within the same year.

— Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026

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The people in the crosshairs The most drastic shifts impact those who plan to stay in Japan for the longest – those applying for permanent residency, a status that grants rights to work, unlimited entries, and infinite stay.

— Christine Miyawaki, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026
In a normal Transformer, tokens—the units of information that large language models process—are passed from lower layers of a model’s neural network to higher layers sequentially, with each layer applying mathematical operations in turn.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026

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