exclusive possession
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Second, a monopolist exerts exclusive possession or control of something and prevents others from engaging in it.
From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2022
The judge noted that while the state may have regulatory control of land and water, there is no basis to support the notion that it has exclusive possession of water.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 11, 2022
“One danger inherent in the incessant linking of Wagner to Hitler,” Ross says, “is that it hands the Führer a belated cultural victory — exclusive possession of the composer he loved.”
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2020
“Weightlessness was another exclusive possession of the very young,” she thinks.
From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2018
But, at the time referred to in the bill of exceptions, it had been captured, and was in the open and exclusive possession of the enemy.
From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by Warburton, A. F.