be possessed of
idiom
literary
: to have (a particular quality, ability, skill, etc.)
He is a man who is possessed of great talent.
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Now, for those of us of solid Midwestern stock (Not to brag, but a recent DNA test traces my lineage back 37,000 years to the backseat of a Rambler parked outside a tavern in Carbondale, Illinois), you’ll be possessed of an almost psychotic love for corn on the cob.
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Tribune News Service, cleveland, 10 Sep. 2020
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Tribune News Service, cleveland, 10 Sep. 2020
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