ownership

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Recent Examples of ownership An additional $200 million will be dedicated to capital improvements at the Red Hook Houses, and $50 million will be set aside for an affordable housing reserve fund and home ownership assistance. Dan Goldman, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2025 This is an impressive achievement, which demonstrates that strong national ownership of difficult economic reforms, when combined with timely international support, can deliver positive results. Vasuki Shastry, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025 In these instances, customers are going to look to the leader to take responsibility and ownership of what occurred. John Hall, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025 Close every meeting with ownership. Elizabeth Freedman, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ownership
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Noun
  • Bailey’s lawsuit is the latest in a prolonged fight between city and state officials over funding of the Kansas City Police Department, which is under state control.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Guam plays a vital role in enabling the ability to operate forward by supporting logistics, command and control, and fleet readiness, the U.S. Navy said.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Plus, management has done a solid job keeping costs down to improve margins.
    Kevin Stankiewicz,Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2025
  • There's even a feature to transcribe voice calls to text, for more efficient record keeping – which supports 37 languages and translations.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • True Detective's Cary Joji Fukunaga directed the film, but since Craig's departure and the recent shake-up in proprietorship, no new Bond or Bond director has yet been announced.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2025
  • In 1961, the Soviet Union’s Yuri Gagarin became the first man up there, sparking an immediate bidding war with the US for proprietorship of the moon.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 8 July 2024
Noun
  • The brand is in possession of 36 loopwheel machines, which are rare to find and even more difficult to fix or find parts for.
    Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 14 Apr. 2025
  • However, Danish authorities have maintained possession of the two friends' passports, according to Ray's family.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Everybody else has no choice, really, other than to bring a cruel, narcissistic far-right leader to power.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Because a bat has a thick barrel and rotates when swung, its motion and power depend on the distribution of weight across the entire shaft, not just in one spot.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025

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“Ownership.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ownership. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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