was owning
- past progressive of own.
Example Sentences
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Their prize of 2024 was owning it all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
With an injury-affected team, this was their new manager's first group game in Europe - Europa League, September 2021 - and he was owning it, until he wasn't.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024
He no longer looked like he was having fun or was owning his opponents like he used to.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2024
The solution, AT&T figured, wasn’t simply distributing content — it was owning it too.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2020
This was my truth and I was owning it.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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