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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
own .
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Examples
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That's a bad situation for a band to be in, where the label owns the rights to your music but they're not doing anything with it.
East Bay Express Bernice Yeung 2010
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Vidal doesn't dispute that the label owns the rights to the music he used.
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Vidal doesn't dispute that the label owns the rights to the music he used.
CNET News.com 2009
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Destroyer, Guv'ner, Polvo and Pipe & The Broken West (with many more to come if the label owns up to its promise of more than 25 bands).
Paste Magazine 2009
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Kevin owns The Foaming Head, a great resource for anyone interested in New York beers, and has worked hard to become an emerging voice on the craft beer scene.
Kevin Burns 2009
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Kevin owns The Foaming Head, a great resource for anyone interested in New York beers, and has worked hard to become an emerging voice on the craft beer scene.
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When your record label owns MTV, basically, they can play whatever the hell they want to play.
Mike Ragogna: Christmas Meets Politics: Chatting With Twisted Sister's Jay Jay French and The Mavericks' Raul Malo Mike Ragogna 2011
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In addition to Ritz Camera stores, the chain owns Wolf Camera, Kits Cameras, Inkleys and the Camera Shops, as well as the Boater's World chain.
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While the Federal gov't does have to spend some money for park rangers and such most of the land it owns is basically nature preserves.
Affordable Housing Oxymorons, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Kevin owns The Foaming Head, a great resource for anyone interested in New York beers, and has worked hard to become an emerging voice on the craft beer scene.
Annoucements 2009
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