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
There were just 36 instances of personal effects being preserved and catalogued last year, according to city statistics.
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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
For calendar year 2026, the value of property exempt from levy under section 6334(a)(2) (typically, fuel, provisions, furniture, and other household personal effects, as well as arms for personal use, livestock, and poultry) cannot exceed $11,980.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Despite the incredibly frustrating situation of being stranded in a foreign country without any of her personal effects, Aminata is remaining positive.
—Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
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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
For calendar year 2026, the value of property exempt from levy under section 6334(a)(2) (typically, fuel, provisions, furniture, and other household personal effects, as well as arms for personal use, livestock, and poultry) cannot exceed $11,980.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Despite the incredibly frustrating situation of being stranded in a foreign country without any of her personal effects, Aminata is remaining positive.
—Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
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“Personal effects.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/personal%20effects. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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