possess
Example Sentences
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I keep coming back to psychoanalyst Karen Horney’s 1950 discussion of neurosis and the professions—how they can attract exactly the wrong people, masquerading ideals they don’t possess.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
While American rail companies possess advanced AI tools, foreign competitors are moving aggressively to exploit structural advantages.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
Texas counties only possess powers explicitly granted by the Legislature, he wrote, and Hood County did not even have powers to require a concept plan.
From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026
"If you are found to possess, breed or trade exotic cockroaches such as dubia cockroaches and Madagascar hissing cockroaches they will be seized and you could face penalties under federal law."
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
Not fast, and not wide—perhaps forty or fifty feet across—the river still seemed to possess force, strength as it ran.
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
Vocabulary lists containing possess
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 6
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Christmas Carol Vocab: A Lyrical Lexicon
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The New SAT: The Language of the Test
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