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adjective

as in retained

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verb

past tense of own
as in had
to keep, control, or experience as one's own we own a modest house and an equally modest car

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Recent Examples of owned
Verb
The land, owned by the Memmen family, has been earmarked for development since the 1980s, but some neighbors aren't happy to see those plans coming to fruition. — Olivia Young, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026 Five years later, Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures ponied up the cash and teamed up with Paramount Pictures, who still owned the rights to the script, to finance the film. — Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2026 Then, in September, the Rhodes family, which owned the for-profit school for nearly 80 years, transferred ownership to the nonprofit SVA Alumni Society. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 11 Aug. 2026 Other holdings include minority stakes in Wrexham FC, the Welsh football club owned by actors Rob Mac and Ryan Reynolds, as well as investments in the Madrid and Miami Open tennis tournaments. — Sara Germano, Sportico.com, 11 Aug. 2026 The Yankees are owned by Yankee Global Enterprises, a company controlled by businessman Hal Steinbrenner and members of his family. — Bloomberg, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026 The High Line Canal is a 71-mile ditch, mostly owned by Denver Water, that runs through 11 jurisdictions from Waterton Canyon in Douglas County to Aurora. — John Aguilar, Denver Post, 11 Aug. 2026 Nolan-O’Slatarra was originally from Ireland and owned a swimwear company called East x East. — Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 11 Aug. 2026 The Texas Super Kings are owned by Anurag Jain and Ross Perot Jr. — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for owned
  1. retained
  2. had
  3. possessed
  4. enjoyed
Adjective
  • No Kansas justice has ever been non-retained.
    — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 3 June 2026
Definition of retained
Verb
  • In 1996, 65% of public safety employees had nine or fewer years on the job.
    — Mariana Trujillo, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Washington himself had hundreds of slaves at his home and plantation in Virginia.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of had
Adjective
  • Religious horror films offer narratives of meaning, mystery, and morality, shaping how power, belief, and the body—both pure and possessed—are understood.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 8 July 2026
  • But no homes are so possessed with pottery of the truly enormous variety as Jeremiah Brent and Nate Berkus, whose Portuguese farmhouse appears on the cover of our June issue.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 22 May 2026
Definition of possessed
Verb
  • Similarly, loading up the XI for the opener away to Fulham with players who have enjoyed the benefits of a full pre-season makes sense, too.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The coalition will try to negotiate a new contract that will preserve or revise the pension and retirement healthcare benefits workers have enjoyed for decades.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of enjoyed

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