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possessed

[puh-zest] / pəˈzɛst /


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If a person in the diocese comes to fear that they or their loved one has been bodily possessed by a demon, the diocese launches an investigation involving medical, psychological, and psychiatric testing.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2026

Both of those professions require analytical thinking - a gift Bielsa also possessed from childhood.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

“To get possessed to do that? It’s just, there’s no words.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

Its members are extraordinarily intelligent, fabulously wealthy and—increasingly—ideologically possessed.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

She possessed eyes whose gaze I delighted to encounter.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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