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own

Definition for own

adjective as in belonging to individual

verb as in possess; be responsible for

verb as in acknowledge, admit

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At times, however, the passages quoted from letters and memoirs come so thick and fast that they threaten to overwhelm the connecting strand of Mr. Hart’s own chronological narrative.

Each of the new opera’s five scenes in Act 1 and three in Act 2 are wondrous worlds of their own.

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But I didn’t have a job to go to, and after wallowing in my own sweat for what seemed like hours, I pulled Paul’s crumbled comedy class ticket out of my jacket pocket.

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When “two velcro patches” were found to be missing from the jacket, two agents removed their own patches and “ran” them over to Patel’s aircraft.

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“We monitored the traffic to the link and it was like, 112 people, of which probably were 50 people of our own team figuring out where this link went,” said Schulz.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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