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- noun Plural form of
possession .
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Examples
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One of my most prized possessions is a complete collection of Shakespeare that was given to my mother as her high school valedictorian present by her book-loving father, the year before he died.
The Quality of Meter 2010
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One of my most prized possessions is a complete collection of Shakespeare that was given to my mother as her high school valedictorian present by her book-loving father, the year before he died.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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I like jewelry – in fact, one of my most cherished possessions is a tiny birthstone ring my uncle bought for me on my 6th birthday.
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"Imagine": we've heard it a thousand times, including today, as part of the Google animated logo on his birthday -- but it's still a great song -- and the idea, "Imagine no possessions," is more radical now than ever.
Jon Wiener: Lennon Top Five Jon Wiener 2010
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Among my most treasured possessions is a set of classic recordings, each and every one of which was lovingly compiled for me years ago on cassettes from the original gramophone records in the collection of my elder brother Hamish.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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I like jewelry – in fact, one of my most cherished possessions is a tiny birthstone ring my uncle bought for me on my 6th birthday.
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"Imagine": we've heard it a thousand times, including today, as part of the Google animated logo on his birthday -- but it's still a great song - and the idea, "Imagine no possessions," is more radical now than ever.
Jon Wiener: Lennon Top Five Jon Wiener 2010
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One of her prized possessions is her Boomerang-Toomerang-Zoomerang, with which she sometimes makes mischief; but usually, when she is caught, she uses the same, to put things back to normal.
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"Imagine": we've heard it a thousand times, including today, as part of the Google animated logo on his birthday -- but it's still a great song - and the idea, "Imagine no possessions," is more radical now than ever.
Jon Wiener: Lennon Top Five Jon Wiener 2010
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Among my most treasured possessions is a set of classic recordings, each and every one of which was lovingly compiled for me years ago on cassettes from the original gramophone records in the collection of my elder brother Hamish.
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WORD: possessions
EXAMPLE: ' He ate, nursed his coffee, and began to read. Mr. Thoreau announced immediately that he had lived by the labor of his hands for two years and two months, which convinced Duane immediately that he had the right book. He liked the part about people whose misfortune it was to inherit farms and cattle and houses and the like, responsibilities they didn't seek and didn't want. Though he had not inherited anything, he knew exactly how it felt to be oppressed by possessions he didn't want or need . . . When he came to the part about the mass of men leading lives of quiet desperation he closed the book and left the pancake house--the few pages that he had read expressed exactly what he had been feeling or suspecting about his own life: that most of his work had been meaningless, much of his labor pointless, and the majority of his possessions unnecessary. He felt like the very man Thoreau described, the man who went through life pushing a barn ahead of him, and all that went with the ownership of a barn as well. '
--- 1999. Larry McMurtry. Duane's Depressed. "Book Two -- The Walker and His Doctor," Chapter 11, Page 274 - 275. Pocket Book edition, ISBN 0-671-02557-0.
January 22, 2014