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“There’s a passage on the Tao Te Ching that reflects on how heavy it is to possess a fortune in gold,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

“Working-class women might not be fighting for a cause with words, time, and money they don’t have,” Smarsh wrote, “but they possess an unsurpassed wisdom about the way gender works in the world.”

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

"This requires them to possess a certain level of intelligence."

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

“They possess this hidden skill that we’re overlooking from this bias against them,” said Scott Bentley, an assistant professor of human-resource management at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations who co-wrote the report.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

If identical twins possess a strong concordance for schizophrenia, say, while fraternal twins—born and bred in an identical environment—show little concordance, then the roots of that illness can be firmly attributed to genetics.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

I have spent five decades trading on a simple premise: Markets aggregate information no committee possesses, and prices are how that information reaches decision makers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Researchers, including Dr. Marcus Lower from Swinburne University of Technology, investigated this long-standing quantum mystery by studying a magnetar, a rare type of neutron star that possesses the strongest magnetic fields known in the universe.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026

"South Korea has been a solid military ally for over 70 years that possesses exquisite military capabilities," Tillis wrote on X.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

Gakpo possesses the technical quality, close control and positional intelligence to perform that role while also providing cover on the left.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

He decides that his only hope is to be bold—a quality this Harvard man possesses in abundance.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

Brown, 35, had denied murder with a special defence that he was suffering from a mental disorder at the time and believed he had been possessed by the spirit of 19th Century occultist Aleister Crowley.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

But it will probably take years for Bronin to acquire the credibility on Social Security that Larson possessed, even assuming that he wishes to do so.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

The ancestors of Indigenous Andeans already possessed different numbers of AMY1 copies before settling in the highlands and domesticating potatoes.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

What on Earth possessed Nolan, a notoriously detail-oriented director, to tap the all-purpose flour of movie stars to portray one of the most storied heroes in literature?

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

She still couldn’t say what exactly had possessed her, how she had let herself get so hungry.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

If a relatively simple machine can produce behavior that looks intentional without possessing a decision-making system, could human behavior also appear to result from centralized decisions even if no such central process exists?

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

He also lambasted people’s preoccupation with possessing money as warping their imaginations and blinding them to the existence of more fulfilling possibilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

The government did not allege that he was intoxicated while possessing the firearm, that he was addicted to marijuana, that he had ever threatened anyone, or that his gun ownership had resulted in any danger.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026

While body armor is legal for most Americans to own, felons with a history of violence are barred from possessing it.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026

Horses permitted people possessing them to cover far greater distances than was possible on foot, to attack by surprise, and to flee before a superior defending force could be gathered.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond