proprietorship

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Recent Examples of proprietorship 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 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 Why not flail around in defense of my all-American single proprietorship? William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023

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“Proprietorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proprietorship. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.

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