possessive

OpenAI’s filing doesn’t name the ex-employee, although it uses a male possessive adjective to refer to the person.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

When the possessive and paranoid Frank Ford runs into Margaret as she’s scurrying to meet his wife, Alice, he pointedly remarks, “I think, if your husbands were dead, you two would marry.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Laundrie objected, saying he felt "neglected" and eventually became possessive.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2025

The inquest has also heard that Gunner Beck received thousands of messages from another senior colleague, Bombardier Ryan Mason, whom she described as being "psychotic and possessive".

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2025

They go wrong when they assume that a word with an apostrophe must be a possessive, like Bertie’s aunt.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

I wrote “our sycamore” above, but great trees defy possessives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2024

His world, at least as related to the tiny mark that denotes possessives and the omission of letters from certain words, appears to be crashing down around him.

From Slate ● May 23, 2013

Booker Prize-winning author James Kelman uses apostrophes for possessives but not for contractions in his most recent work.

From Slate ● May 23, 2013

It’s also customary to drop the final s when forming the possessives of ancient classical or biblical names that already end in s: Whose biceps were bigger, Hercules’ or Achilles’?

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

For an acquisitive society, were awfully careless about possessives.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner