pertain

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Most of your previous submissions pertain to ChronicDB.

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Quick take

be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"

Meaning at a glance

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verb

be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"

verb

be a part or attribute of

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pertain.

verb

be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"

verb

be a part or attribute of

Example sentences

Most of your previous submissions pertain to ChronicDB.

I'm working on some open source projects that pertain to recognizing entailment in plain text.

There is no reason to call him out on this portion of the post as it doesn't pertain to the point of the article, and just makes you look sort of dickish.

Since that isn't the case here, the next step is typically "Is this unique or specific to Apple, and does the issue at hand pertain to other devices or OSes?

He may have "gotten away with it" so long as the court orders he apparently quietly complied with didn't pertain to the highest-profile target on the Internet.

Nobody complains about the memory limits of IE's javascript engine as they pertain to server-side applications.

The correlations pertain to mortality rates and birth rates, and certainly suggests no formula for when to die, or causation of any sort for that matter.