possessiveness
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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
When an aspect of your culture becomes ubiquitous in the mainstream, no matter who you are, I think it’s natural to feel a little possessiveness.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
Same need for help, given how extreme her possessiveness is, but different sources and risks.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2023
I felt my loose connection to Great-Great-Uncle Monty shift into possessiveness: Who were these people writing about what I felt, unjustly, to be my story?
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2021
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
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