as in exclusive
belonging to only one person, unit, or group and not used by or available to others
The restaurant's proprietary recipe for barbecue sauce is only known to the head chef.
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Recent Examples of proprietary
The analyst also cited the company’s performance on Piper Sandler’s proprietary survey of Gen Z consumers.
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Alex Harring, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025
Disney has expanded the proprietary customer data that underpins its ad tech platform to Europe, executives told Axios.
—Sara Fischer, Axios, 8 Apr. 2025
Do Macs and iPhones Have Thunderbolt 5? Thunderbolt was once a proprietary standard exclusive to computers with Intel silicon, but that changed in 2017.
—PC Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
Armstrong spent a year experimenting to develop the proprietary picto-charm process, which involves nine steps and several days.
—Marina Harss, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025
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Alex Harring, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025
Disney has expanded the proprietary customer data that underpins its ad tech platform to Europe, executives told Axios.
—Sara Fischer, Axios, 8 Apr. 2025
Do Macs and iPhones Have Thunderbolt 5? Thunderbolt was once a proprietary standard exclusive to computers with Intel silicon, but that changed in 2017.
—PC Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
Armstrong spent a year experimenting to develop the proprietary picto-charm process, which involves nine steps and several days.
—Marina Harss, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025
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“Proprietary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proprietary. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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