possessed

He possessed both the winemaking skills and an appetite for devilry.

Semiconductors, which form the foundation of modern computer chips and solar cells, could operate far faster and more efficiently if they also possessed superconducting abilities.

Flaubert and Balzac, according to Mr. Delbourgo, were a new kind of buyer, the “Romantic collecting self,” possessed by status anxiety but lacking great wealth.

I correctly predicted that the armed raid of Bolton’s house was part of an investigation into whether he illegally possessed or shared classified information in connection to his memoir.

To this end, no one has possessed as much unfulfilled promise in carrying the Black celebrity activism torch as Kendrick Lamar.