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I believe that humans ­today still possess the capabilities of the ancients.

Through two games of the World Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers — owners of the best record in the majors — and the Tampa Bay Rays, possessing the best record in the AL this season, have each won a game.

Because gluons possess color charge themselves, they constantly interact with one another as well as with quarks.

The important thing to think about is do these underground lakes perhaps possess Martian life.

It’s enormously more powerful than when everyone merely possesses the same facts.

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He was charged with two counts of possessing a raptor and two counts of possessing a protected species.

In 2010, however, a Georgian court sentenced Batirashvili to three years of jail for illegally possessing a weapon.

Morgan is a convicted felon and therefore barred from possessing firearms.

In November 2013, it was reported that 80 prisoners were publicly executed, many for possessing Bibles.

Soldier N was found guilty of possessing illegal firearms and was sentenced to two years in prison.

High-minded and possessing a keen sense of honor himself, he had an instinctive aversion to anything mean or low in others.

It is good for a man to have friends, and I have been fortunate throughout my life in possessing many.

These may be said to be pure in tone, but not possessing the other requisites they fail in commanding attention.

He is described by Calamy as having been a good scholar, and possessing a taste for poetry.

The strangest materials were used in their construction; the public taste leaning towards relics possessing historical interest.

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On this page you'll find 54 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to possessing, such as: commanding, controlling, covering, holding, maintaining, and obtaining.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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