ours

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  • In the wake of that crash, state legislators and other officials pledged to tighten up Wisconsin's relatively lax OWI statutes -- ours is the only state that treats a first offense as a non-criminal ticket, for example -- but even after a year of heightened consciousness, nothing legislatively has happened. —  The Political Environment
  • We adopted our daughter, who has limb difference, almost three years ago and I am still angered at and embarrassed for and of our fellow ap's for the atmosphere created around the adoption experience and the treatment / attitude they (of course not all) projected at families such as ours -- adopting sn. —  Harlow's Monkey
  • The black vehicle has come off a lot worse than ours, which is easily salvageable. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • "In a service industry such as ours, our employees are a key to differentiating us from other companies," Mackenzie says.
  • For a society of immigrants such as ours, the core knowledge is our shared identity that makes us Americans together rather than hyphenated Americans. —  Sigmund, Carl and Alfred
 

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  1. Middle English oures, from oure, our, from Old English ūre; see nes-2 in Indo-European roots.
 

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/aʊrz/
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