Example Sentences

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In August, Bombardier Chief Executive Eric Matel flagged a heavy trend in the fleet operating business, as not all customers are owning a jet.

From Reuters • Oct. 16, 2022

“We are owning it,” Corey Robinson, senior vice president of design and merchandising at Abercrombie, said of company’s past.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2021

It’s about loving who you are, owning who you are and knowing that it’s O.K. to live your life how you want to live it.

From Time • Jan. 28, 2016

Public pensions are owning up to a painful truth about their private-equity bets: They never totaled the bill.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2015

“I remember! You were young—like Zola—yes? And now you are owning the building and making a school there?”

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech