possessiveness
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"If you don't like it, just don't go for it or follow it. Why the possessiveness over other people's wallets?" someone wrote on Weibo.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
“I had written a book on writing once …” How did professional jealousy, competitiveness, possessiveness, or, on the brighter side, tenderness, collaborative spirit and generosity play out as you wrote a writing book together?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
Same need for help, given how extreme her possessiveness is, but different sources and risks.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2023
I felt my loose connection to Great-Great-Uncle Monty shift into possessiveness: Who were these people writing about what I felt, unjustly, to be my story?
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2021
He touches her shoulder with a possessiveness in his eyes that I don’t like.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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