possessiveness
Example Sentences
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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
Quickly, Karsh’s love turns to possessiveness, and everyone around him becomes a suspect.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2025
Yearning, possessiveness, jealousy, deception, self-torture, the impossibility of truly knowing another person — these turn out to be the unhappy and recurrent elements of Proustian love.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2022
She had some of her Aunt Evy’s talent for mimicking, some of Ruthie Nolan’s possessiveness.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
