as in things
transportable items that one owns
put all of your personal effects in the bin so that they can be x-rayed
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Recent Examples of personal effects
Investigators recovered more bones, clothing and personal effects, but other than determining the remains belonged to a woman who was at least middle-aged, could not identify her, deputies said.
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Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2025
Hoping the isolation will work wonders for his TV script, Harry (who’s clearly never heard of The Shining) becomes addicted to Limitless-style pills that enhance his creative output but have devastating personal effects.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2025
There were just 36 instances of personal effects being preserved and catalogued last year, according to city statistics.
—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2025
What the press release didn’t say was that other than personal effects, the only actual biological evidence Erika and Zach recovered at the site was a right temporal lobe skull fragment about the size of a walnut, just one of 206 bones in the human body.
—Ted Katauskas, Outside, 23 Sep. 2025
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Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2025
Hoping the isolation will work wonders for his TV script, Harry (who’s clearly never heard of The Shining) becomes addicted to Limitless-style pills that enhance his creative output but have devastating personal effects.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2025
There were just 36 instances of personal effects being preserved and catalogued last year, according to city statistics.
—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2025
What the press release didn’t say was that other than personal effects, the only actual biological evidence Erika and Zach recovered at the site was a right temporal lobe skull fragment about the size of a walnut, just one of 206 bones in the human body.
—Ted Katauskas, Outside, 23 Sep. 2025
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“Personal effects.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/personal%20effects. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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