possession

Receiving the first possession now comes with a different upside: the first crack at possessing the ball again if the two teams are still tied.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

My most treasured possession belonging to Dad are his movie scripts, leather-bound.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

"It was through interrogation work that investigators were able to get the receiver of the stolen goods to admit that he had indeed taken possession of the paintings."

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Herbert melted down, getting stonewalled on a fourth-and-one keeper, fumbling away the next possession, then ending the next with an interception.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

With all of the excitement over the mountain, Jess had managed to keep her mind off the fact that she’d lost Dad’s prized possession.

From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis

He kept all his possessions in two sacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

I posed those questions to two researchers who study why people get attached to their possessions: Ekerdt and Karen Winterich, a professor at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 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

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

Here I was alone on this island in the middle of nowhere, stripped of whatever meager possessions I had ever owned.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo