possessed
Example Sentences
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Clara Davis, an influential pediatrician, taught that children possessed innate wisdom, and thus their preferences and cravings were a better guide to what they should eat than the dreary and tyrannical “dosage method.”
The following month, Titone, Brunel’s lawyer, called Edwards, the victims’ attorney, saying he was having trouble serving Epstein with the lawsuit, and raised the possibility that Brunel possessed photographic evidence against Epstein.
Byrne, possessed of the saddest, most compelling resting face since Garbo’s, broke through in the U.S. with “The Dead Girl,” “28 Weeks Later” and the FX series “Damages.”
From Los Angeles Times
Until this fossil came to light, there was no evidence that dinosaurs possessed hollow skin based spines of this kind.
From Science Daily
Ukrainians possessed intimate knowledge of every road junction, bridge, tunnel, marsh, river and choke point that could be exploited against a mechanized force dependent on road networks.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
