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* Class membership.
To belong to a set or class: " She could be a nurse.
" " Dogs are canines.
" " Moscow is a large city.
" Depending on one's point of view, all other uses can be considered derivatives of this use, including the following non-copular uses in English, as they all express a subset relationship.
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