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The word belonged is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a past-tense verb to indicate that something was once a part of someone or something else. For example: "The old house belonged to my grandmother for many years."
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FIFA did not incur any costs as a result of South Africa's request because the funds belonged to the LOC.
Only later was it established that all of it belonged to the young man who had turned to the Carabinieri.
And, being the only fool doing Rigi on foot, the magic belonged only to me – well, me and my ghostly guide, from 150 years ago.
She may not have belonged to the greatest country on Earth, but the crowd cheered her anyway.
The chickens were apparently a reference to a 2010 stunt carried out by Voina, a radical art collective to which some Pussy Riot members previously belonged, in which a participant stole a whole raw chicken from a supermarket and inserted it into her vagina.
Egypt displayed today newly discovered tombs more than 4,000 years old and said they belonged to people who worked on the Great Pyramids of Giza, supporting evidence that slaves did not build the ancient monuments.
It was a closing line that belonged in one of his plays.
Back in the mid-90s he'd belonged to a "radical cell" of the anarchist, anti-capitalist environmental movement.
The torture was aimed at getting him to confess he belonged to the CIA and he "confessed to stop the pain".
"From the very beginning, I've always belonged to you," Mary tells her husband's murderer gratefully.
A few metres away, the only lights on belonged to the pair of smart two-storey houses Jonathan built for his parents.
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