posses
Example Sentences
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Plans for ashes left over from cremations are also part of the proposal, with the commission alleging that funeral directors posses "hundreds of thousands of sets of ashes which have not been collected".
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2024
Thon’s scouting report: Ponce, 17, is a 5-foot-10, right-handed hitting utility player who will mostly concentrate on catching and posses a high on-base offensive profile.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
But they are not immune to mankind’s hunger to posses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2021
The documents called for setting up sheriff’s posses, community kitchens, a “militia-based military” and communications carried out by ham radio operators.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2019
The title was largely honorific, but it enabled him to carry a badge and to lead posses, and he sometimes kept one pistol in his side pocket and another strapped to his hip.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
