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Recent Examples of proprietorship
True Detective's Cary Joji Fukunaga directed the film, but since Craig's departure and the recent shake-up in proprietorship, no new Bond or Bond director has yet been announced.
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2025
In 1961, the Soviet Union’s Yuri Gagarin became the first man up there, sparking an immediate bidding war with the US for proprietorship of the moon.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 8 July 2024
Why not flail around in defense of my all-American single proprietorship?
—William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
The awards — which have been given out to local proprietorships for over three decades — this year were sponsored by HarborOne Bank.
—BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
Elon antagonists railed against his proprietorship.
—Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2022
Yet Maphorisa’s response to the Davido fan seemed to encourage a fuller understanding of the hybrids rather than expressing proprietorship over them.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2022
The American antimonopoly vision also played a foundational role in the decades-long fight to break the slave power, which many Americans considered a monopolistic threat to the system of small proprietorship that the U.S. government had cultivated.
—Barry C. Lynn, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
However, a proprietorship can only have one owner.
—Tom Cooney and Crystal Faulkner, The Enquirer, 5 Oct. 2020
Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2025
In 1961, the Soviet Union’s Yuri Gagarin became the first man up there, sparking an immediate bidding war with the US for proprietorship of the moon.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 8 July 2024
Why not flail around in defense of my all-American single proprietorship?
—William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
The awards — which have been given out to local proprietorships for over three decades — this year were sponsored by HarborOne Bank.
—BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
Elon antagonists railed against his proprietorship.
—Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2022
Yet Maphorisa’s response to the Davido fan seemed to encourage a fuller understanding of the hybrids rather than expressing proprietorship over them.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2022
The American antimonopoly vision also played a foundational role in the decades-long fight to break the slave power, which many Americans considered a monopolistic threat to the system of small proprietorship that the U.S. government had cultivated.
—Barry C. Lynn, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
However, a proprietorship can only have one owner.
—Tom Cooney and Crystal Faulkner, The Enquirer, 5 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for proprietorship
ownership
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Serbia claims its border runs down the center of the contemporary river; Croatia claims a different border, based on 19th-century land ownership maps, when the river ran a different course.—
Richard Collett,
CNN Money,
29 Oct. 2025
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Controlling ownership of the Spectrum changed less than a year ago when the majority of the complex was sold to Utah owners.—
Michael Deeds,
Idaho Statesman,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Proprietorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proprietorship. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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