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The fossil evidence also hints that the animal may have possessed small appendages for picking up and arranging mineral grains.

From Science Daily • Nov. 12, 2025

And, given they have never admitted causing the destruction that shocked the world, what might have possessed them to do it?

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025

To have possessed something, to have nurtured and treasured it, and for it to be stolen from you never to return, that can be crushing.

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2024

But a study published Thursday in the journal Nature Astronomy suggests that Venus in its youth may have possessed a key Earth-like trait: plate tectonics, the continual reshaping of pieces of the planet’s outer crust.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2023

Rachel, with a ghost of the charm she must once have possessed, succeeded in drawing William, if not actually into the circle, at least to its warm circumference.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare