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both of ours

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from both of us and ours.

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both of ours

  1. (colloquial) That which belongs to both of us; the possessive first-person pronoun used without a following noun.
    • 1981, Meredith Sue Willis, Higher Ground:
      “[…] Everything we have is both of ours.”
    • 2011, Dean Karlan, Jacob Appel, More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy:
      The I in this book is me, Dean. But the writing is both of ours.

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