possessiveness

Example Sentences

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“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

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

As they walked on, his hand remained on her elbow with a new possessiveness.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare