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theirs

/ðɛɚz/ pronoun A2
  1. That or those belonging to them; the possessive case of they, used without a following noun. · This luggage is theirs. These passports are also theirs.· Theirs cost a lot more than ours.
  2. Their house or home. (informal) · Let's go over to theirs.

Plural theirs

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Having accomplished these three social duties, Monte Cristo stopped, looking around him with that expression peculiar to a certain class, which seems to say, “I have done my duty, now let others do theirs.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 969 · C1
Theirs is quite a different story!
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 9 · C1
If I were betrayed as he was, I would console myself; but to be in the midst of persons elevated by myself to places of honor, who ought to watch over me more carefully than over themselves,—for my fortune is theirs—before me they were nothing—after me they will be nothing, and perish miserably from incapacity—ineptitude!
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 101 · C1
Of course, I wasn’t in the Fifth Reader--I was only in the Fourth--but the big girls used to lend me theirs to read.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 52 · C1

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