own up
Example Sentences
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Last year Niti Aayog, the government’s top public-policy think tank, recommended that Chinese companies be allowed to own up to 24% of Indian entities without additional scrutiny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The league allowed preapproved firms to own up to 10% of a single team, up to six teams total with each stake being at least 3%.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
But one aspect of a fair justice system is for wrongdoers to face proportionate consequences—not to be shunned forever, but to be expected to own up, make amends, and, sometimes, pay a penalty.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Booker said Waltz “denied” and “deflected” rather than own up to his mistakes, something the New Jersey senator said is a “failure of leadership.”
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2025
But after ’while you’re old enough and you got to own up to what you did, right or wrong, and couldn’t no one tell me that all this horribleness didn’t start with me.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
