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  • verb Present participle of poss.

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Examples

  • Besides them being the National Enquirer possing as a journalistic outlet?

    Think Progress » Morning Joe crew rips Limbaugh: ‘Deplorable,’ ‘insensitive,’ ‘mean-spirited.’ 2010

  • Are you referring to individuals possing limb structures that are part fin/part foot?

    Evolution Weekend -- 2010 - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • But you just dont find Celtic fans on Ranger sites possing as rascit huns etc , or Everton one posing as Liverpol fans - It just dont happen - and in the very very few cases it does it's all self policed, an effectively

    CyberNats Jeff 2009

  • It is nebuless an autodidact fact of the commonest that the shape of the average human cloudyphiz, whereas sallow has long daze faded, frequently altered its ego with the possing of the showers

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Cissy wiped his little mouth with the dribbling bib and wanted him to sit up properly and say pa pa pa but when she undid the strap she cried out, holy saint Denis, that he was possing wet and to double the half blanket the other way under him.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Sossing and possing in the dirt still from day to day.

    The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne

  • Cissy wiped his little mouth with the dribbling bib and wanted him to sit up properly and say pa pa pa but when she undid the strap she cried out, holy saint Denis, that he was possing wet and to double the half blanket the other way under him.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • The performance was begun by the usual dirty white horse, that was brought out and set to gallop round, with a gaudy horse-woman on his back, who jumped through a hoop and did the ordinary feats, the horse's hoofs splashing and possing all the time in the green slush of the ring.

    In Wicklow and West Kerry 1890

  • In spite of all the bleaching of the linen thread, it still was light brown in color, and it had to go through at least twoscore other processes, of bucking, possing, rinsing, drying, and bleaching on the grass.

    Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • Tappin faces charges in Texas over allegations that he offered in 2006 to sell specialized batteries for Hawk missiles for $25,000 to undercover American agents possing as Iranians.

    The Seattle Times 2012

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