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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of POSSESSES in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of POSSESSES in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of POSSESSES in a Sentence

  1. Sadie Sink:

    There wasn’t a set script or movement that you had to stick to, so there was just so much freedom, and I think that’s how we got such real moments, she possesses these innate qualities in a director.

  2. I Ching:

    He who possesses the source of Enthusiasm Will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you As a hair clasp gathers the hair.

  3. Teresa of Ávila:

    O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

  4. Charlotte Brontë:

    But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master -- something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.

  5. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

    A single person, I need hardly say, is something subordinate, and as such he must dedicate himself to the ethical whole. Hence, if the State claims life, the individual must surrender it… All the worth which the human being possesses… he possesses only through the State.

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