OWNS Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

owns

verb

present tense third-person singular of own

as in has

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 owns Her mother taught her to drive in a 1961 Porsche 356 coupe, a car Brundage now owns. — Chris Hardesty, AJC.com, 16 Oct. 2026 De Soto data center Digital Realty is a global real estate company that owns and operates data centers. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2026 Mikhelson is not on the sanctions list, nor is his daughter, Victoria, who owns GES-2 as of 2023. — News Desk, Artforum, 16 Oct. 2026 Serving classic Venetian food and its signature Bellini, Harry Cipriani is run by the same family that owns Harry’s Bar in Venice. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026 This can be a specific role or committee with AI cyber risk written into its job, the same way a CISO owns network security. — Tj Marlin, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026 In merging SpaceX with xAI in February, Musk combined his AI and social networking business with his rocket launch company, which also owns the Starlink satellite internet service. — Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026 Netflix operates the historic Paris Theater in NYC and owns the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026 Abrams even owns a winery (Ev&Em) and a Rotten Tomatoes-for-booze company The Daily Pour, as well as popular New York City restaurant Danny’s. — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2026

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The mid-weight denim is rigid, made of 100 percent cotton rigid denim and has a bit of a rustic feel.

— Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026
When healthy, Ohtani has the ability to break out of even the most dire of slumps with an otherworldly performance, like that three-homer (as a hitter), 10-strikeout (as a pitcher) all-timer.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of has

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Her path crosses with that of Inocência, an enslaved Black woman who possesses healing knowledge, knows the land, and devises her own strategies of resistance.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
More than 5% of equipment and materials supplied to US chipmakers originate in China, which also possesses some 90% of the rare earths required to manufacture semiconductors, a new report showed.

— Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 12 Oct. 2026