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pos·sess·ing

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  1. List of paraphrases for "possessing":

    possession, owning, possess

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How to use possessing in a sentence?

  1. Joe Biden:

    No one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana, it’s legal in many states, and criminal records for marijuana possession have led to needless barriers to employment, housing, and educational opportunities. And that’s before you address the racial disparities around who suffers the consequences. While white and Black and brown people use marijuana at similar rates, Black and brown people are arrested, prosecuted, and convicted at disproportionate rates.

  2. George Pell:

    It is important to point out that the Vatican is not broke ... the Holy See is paying its way, while possessing substantial assets and investments.

  3. Herbert Clark Hoover:

    Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world-wide depression all by myself.

  4. Vida D. Scudder:

    It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

  5. Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night:

    To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing.


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