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pos·sess·ing
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Possessing
of Possess
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of possessing in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of possessing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of possessing in a Sentence
No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.
No one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana, it’s legal in many states, and criminal records for marijuana possession have led to needless barriers to employment, housing, and educational opportunities. And that’s before you address the racial disparities around who suffers the consequences. While white and Black and brown people use marijuana at similar rates, Black and brown people are arrested, prosecuted, and convicted at disproportionate rates.
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing them -- that what has been said has still not been said enough.
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
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