possessing

Lawrence pleaded guilty to two offences - one of assault and another of possessing an imitation gun with intent to cause fear and violence.

In their theology, evil spirits or demons worked through Democrats and FBI agents and journalists and even gender-affirming schoolteachers—literally possessing them—to gain territory for the devil in the battle for the soul of the country.

He added that Morrow, who also pleaded guilty to possessing an extreme pornographic image, was "extremely remorseful".

To be socially dead is to lose the culturally conferred distinctions of possessing a family, country and respect — it is to be recognized as what Patterson would call an “enemy outsider” living in the community as a “criminal insider.”

You describe them as possessing an "identity-aware ethical outlook," as opposed to being either "identity-driven" or "identity-blind."