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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. George Steinbrenner:

    We have a person and manager in Aaron Boone who possesses the baseball acumen and widespread respect in our clubhouse to continue to guide us forward, as a team and as an organization, we must grow, evolve and improve. We need to get better. Period.

  2. James Burgh:

    No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself and what he possesses else he lives precariously, and at discretion.

  3. 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.

  4. Ayanna Pressley:

    A sixteen-year-old in 2021 possesses a wisdom and a maturity that comes from 2021 challenges, 2021 hardships, and 2021 threats, now is the time for us to demonstrate the courage that matches the challenges of the modern-day sixteen and seventeen-year-old.

  5. Wang Yi:

    The Nansha islands are China's territory. In this regard, China possesses ample historical and legal basis.

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