possessive

On a surface level, I think Brontë created an archetype that has lived on — the brooding, possessive self-made man type.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026

With her husband so frequently absent, child-rearing fell almost entirely to Frances, who proved a loving but possessive mother.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 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

There are scores of other possessive puzzles: Are you a friend of Jake, or a friend ofJake’si Are you going to your aunt and uncle’s house, or to your aunt’s and uncle’s house?

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

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

From Slate ● May 23, 2013

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

The most obvious examples are iterated possessives such as my mother’s brother’s wife’s father’s cousin.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

For an acquisitive society, were awfully careless about possessives.

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