possession
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“I am afraid to own a Body— / I am afraid to own a Soul— / Profound—precarious Property— / Possession, not optional—” There it is, captured in four lines by Emily Dickinson, the human condition.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
Possession of a police scanner is not illegal in New Zealand, but distributing or acting on information heard on it is a crime.
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026
Possession stats were brilliant for England and they had the vast majority of the ball.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2024
Seven years later came her breakthrough with Possession, which became a bestseller and won the coveted Booker Prize for Fiction the same year.
From Reuters • Nov. 17, 2023
Possession is nine tenths of the law, and the Army had the meat and the agent.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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