- present tense form of possess (3rd person singular).
possesses
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But his streamlined version possesses the sweep of the poem’s packed story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
Phil Foden's magnificent man-of-the-match display in the Champions League against AEK Athens served as a reminder of the prodigious talent that the player still possesses.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Mr. Kozinski certainly possesses impressive legal acumen by nature of his profession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
The finding reveals that light possesses a hidden geometric structure that can influence its behavior in ways researchers previously thought were difficult to achieve.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Offhand, I cannot think of any important human disease for which medicine possesses the outright capacity to prevent or cure where the cost of the technology is itself a major problem.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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