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ours
[ ouuhrz, ou-erzor, often, ahrz ]
pronoun
- (a form of the possessive case of we used as a predicate adjective):
Which house is ours?
- that or those belonging to us:
Ours was given second prize. Ours are in the car.
ours
/ ʊə /
pronoun
- something or someone belonging to or associated with us
ours have blue tags
- of oursbelonging to or associated with us
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
The answer reflects how humans have invaded its space and how it has adapted to ours.
The trip fulfilled "a long-time dream of ours", the band said.
"It's all about the perpetrators' human rights and not ours, and that's so wrong," she said.
“Cities like ours are going through challenging economic times across the nation,” Bass said, explaining that she plans to make the city work more efficiently by consolidating departments and reorganizing.
Today, the many compelling stories of those suffering in this increasingly diverse nation of ours — from immigrants to domestic workers to all the discriminated-against people I’ve mentioned in this essay — must be told.
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