possessiveness

Example Sentences

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When an aspect of your culture becomes ubiquitous in the mainstream, no matter who you are, I think it’s natural to feel a little possessiveness.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024

Viewers accused Ms. Bond of selling out and expressed a startling degree of possessiveness over her life.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2022

In contrast to the spirit of cooperation required for a successful recovery effort, Collar wrote in 1992, “ownership is a matter of jealousy, prestige and possessiveness that is fundamentally different in psychological origin.”

From Science Magazine • Jun. 8, 2022

Whether her thin-skinned possessiveness is new, new to you, or well-established, you do have some options for dealing with it:

From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2022

He touches her shoulder with a possessiveness in his eyes that I don’t like.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir