possessions
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He kept all his possessions in two sacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Ekerdt said adult children often decline their parents’ possessions for exactly this reason: They haven’t lived with the object and they don’t know the story attached to it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Her will was very clear regarding the disposition of her possessions, and we have already done that.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
For the next 16 years, he hardly owned any material possessions and worked for free as a high school teacher in San Francisco and throughout some of the poorest areas in the San Joaquin Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Germany, a latecomer to the race for overseas possessions, had only a few colonies in Africa and the Pacific.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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