Synonyms for possessing
pos·sess·ing

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1. List of paraphrases for "possessing":

   possession, owning, possess

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1. Virginia Woolf:

   Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.

2. The Justice Department:

   Plaintiffs asserted that the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Checks System (NICS) failed to timely discover that the shooter was a person prohibited by federal law from possessing a firearm, plaintiffs alleged that because of this delay, the shooter was able to purchase the handgun that he used to commit the atrocity.

3. Billy Graham:

   There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

4. Aristotle:

   Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

5. Vida D. Scudder:

   It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.