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own

[ohn] / oʊn /






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If you are self-employed, run your own company or even have a side hustle, you have an opportunity to save much more for retirement.

From MarketWatch

The director’s memoir confronts his own appetites with candor.

From The Wall Street Journal

“People will naturally continue working over the holiday period but more at their own speed as they have lots of family commitments to juggle,” Cadwallader said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Some Nigerians welcomed U.S. intervention, citing their own government’s failure to make headway against terrorism and banditry since the kidnapping of the Chibok girls more than a decade ago.

From The Wall Street Journal

Hale, who has been been listening to and translating Korean and Chinese chatter, dreams of moving upstairs, which will come with the discovery that his head is not entirely his own.

From Los Angeles Times