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The school board announced in a June 5 meeting that a contract with a vendor called Specialized Support Services, which was proprietorially signed by Tabet’s daughter, was under investigation.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025

I love how Julian manages to make even a compliment sound proprietorially undermining.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2017

The stationmaster looked proprietorially towards the station and the hotel site.

From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora

All that afternoon she had been listening to an exotic discourse on "Woman and her Current Philosophy"; and now—here was Osborn's letter, suggesting calmly, proprietorially almost, his re-entry into her life.

From Married Life The True Romance by Edginton, May

Al engaged at the telephone with some one whom he addressed proprietorially as Kid, was deep in his plans for the evening's diversion.

From Cheerful—By Request by Ferber, Edna