possess
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The new law bars sellers from advertising, listing or selling tickets they don’t possess or have the legal right to receive, unless the event’s presenter or venue allows it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Your wife, while she might possess similar thoughts to you, did not see it as appropriate or worthwhile to fight for the home.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
While underwhelming at the past couple of international tournaments, Germany still possess a deep talent pool.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Researchers also found that Myotis bats possess an unusually large number of genes that produce proteins interacting with DNA viruses, such as herpes viruses, which carry their genetic information in DNA.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Joon and I both possess Uhmma’s lean fingers, but without the hard, yellowed calluses formed by years of abuse from physical labor.
From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na
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But it also possesses long, continuously growing incisors and several distinctive skull features seen in zalambdalestoids, a group of small, shrew-like insectivore mammals.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
"Markets aggregate information no committee possesses, and prices are how that information reaches decision makers," Druckenmiller said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed last month.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Now Gauff possesses a serve which is a serious weapon - even though she still leaks some double faults.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
China alone possesses a manufacturing base far larger than America’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Army Airborne School is a collection of soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, cadets, and anyone else who has received the funding and possesses the will to become Airborne-qualified.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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"I don't know what possessed me," the drummer grimaces, while trying to insist the hosing "was an act of kindness and love because it was a hot day".
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
The elderly Douglass insisted that the country needed not new founding principles but the diligent application of those principles it already possessed without distinctions of race, sex, color or religion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Over the next 22 months he hunted them like a man possessed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Detailed analysis showed that C. praecursor possessed an ovipositor and a terminal caudal filament.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
The minute they let their guard down—boom!—he possessed them.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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In 2020, North Korea made possessing foreign media a crime punishable by years-long forced labour terms –- and potential death sentences for large-scale distribution, according to Amnesty International.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
What it exposed was the difference between possessing world-level talent and having the conditioning, experience and ring craft required to manage a 12-round world-title fight.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
If a relatively simple machine can produce behavior that looks intentional without possessing a decision-making system, could human behavior also appear to result from centralized decisions even if no such central process exists?
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
York, 45, pleaded no contest to charges of disorderly conduct and possessing criminal tools, Columbiana County Municipal Court records show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
DeSheim informed the company that he would produce any play they liked, and they sat like frightened mice, possessing no words to make known their vague desires.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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