Synonyms for possessing
pos·sess·ing

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1. List of paraphrases for "possessing":

   possession, owning, possess

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1. 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.

2. Eugène Delacroix:

   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.

3. Chuck Michel:

   Were still digesting the opinion but it appears to us that he struck down both the latest ban on possessing by those who are grandfathered in, but also said that everyone has a right to acquire one.

4. Carrie Horstman:

   You’re possessing something that is stolen from a business, whether it’s as small as a milk crate, or a shopping cart, hewas charged with possessing stolen property. He may pay a fine or spend a few days in jail.

5. 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.