possessiveness
Example Sentences
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"If you don't like it, just don't go for it or follow it. Why the possessiveness over other people's wallets?" someone wrote on Weibo.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
According to Sure, Porter warned him about Combs, advising Sure to stay out of Quincy’s life because of Combs’ alleged possessiveness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2025
“I don’t know if it’s the topic, but there hasn’t been a possessiveness about subject matter that I’ve found in other subjects, and I do think that’s pretty incredible.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023
Viewers accused Ms. Bond of selling out and expressed a startling degree of possessiveness over her life.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2022
She had some of her Aunt Evy’s talent for mimicking, some of Ruthie Nolan’s possessiveness.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
