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1. abbreviationcontractionContraction of it + is.

   it’s too expensive; it’s coming right for us!; it's a free country

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   [...], guided not by his own Will, but by the Medick Science, which dictates, that it's recessary, beneficial, and convenient to alter, mix, and temper this medicine, and fit it to the Disposition, and Constitution of the Patient[.]

   1743, Martin Marley, The Good Confessor, page 307

   The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.

   2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48

2. abbreviationcontractionContraction of it + has.

   It’s been a long time since I’ve had cheesecake.

3. abbreviationcontractionproscribedContraction of it + was.

   When I was a kid, it's the thought that counted but, now, it's all about the Benjamins.

4. contractiondialectalnonstandardThere's, there is; there're, there are.

   It's a package for you by the door.

1. obsoleteObsolete form of its.

   It’s tendency would be to raise and refine her mind—and it must be saving her from the danger of degradation.

   1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 60

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   The manner wherewith our Lawes assay to moderate the foolish and vaine expences of table-cheare and apparell, seemeth contrarie to it’s end.

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 43, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

   Thoſe human laws, that annex a puniſhment to it, do not at all increaſe it’s moral guilt, or ſuperadd any freſh obligation in foro conſcientiae to abſtain from it’s perpetration.

   1765, William Blackstone, “Introduction”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book I (Of the Rights of Persons), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, section II (Of the Nature of Laws in General), pages 42–43

   Behold the balanc’d Scales suspended stand, Neither a jot inclin’d to either hand: But place the smallest grain of weight in one, Straight the fraternal equipoise is gone; The loaded scale, preponderant, downward flies, Drags down the chain, and makes it’s partner rise.

   1767, George Canning, “Anti-Lucretius”, in Poems, London: for the author, page 281

   No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws[.]

   1787, “Article I”, in United States Constitution

   The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, & such principal stream of it, as, by it’s course & communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean.

   1803, President Thomas Jefferson, Instructions to Captain Meriwether Lewis

2. misspellingMisspelling of its.

   After being open only a few short weeks, Freddy Fazbear's Pizza is closing it's doors.

   2014, Scott Cawthon, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, scene: night 6 ending