- present participle of own.
owning
Example Sentences
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For more than a decade, Paramount has been the smallest of the major media companies, owning CBS, Comedy Central, BET, Nickelodeon and the Melrose Avenue studio.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Instead of owning the blunder, Schmitt doubled down.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
That means the case for owning the stock increasingly rests on what Protagonist can do with the platform over the long term, explains Evan Seigerman, an analyst at BMO Capital Markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
MarketWatch: Is it possible for ordinary investors to build wealth without owning a business?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
In Afghanistan, owning anything American, especially if it wasn’t secondhand, was a sign of wealth.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
