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

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

As it moved through TikTok and Instagram, the term focused solely on the plural possessive, as people jokingly addressed their intangible audiences.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2024

Later, they sent an updated transcript that changed it again to "supporter's" — a singular possessive that would mean Hinchcliffe's comment.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2024

I grew up on stories of holy men parting the river Bistrița, golems shaped from clay, and, of course, those possessive spirits called dybbukim.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

Of course, you can say the same thing without using any possessives: After waiting an hour in court, Butch was given two years of probation for stealing fifty dollars in change from the collection plate.

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