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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Recent Examples of appertainAh, but a, b, and c above do not appertain to cancer.—John Rosemond, charlotteobserver, 11 May 2017
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Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
13 May 2025
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Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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