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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On display are intimate personal effects—embroidered blouses, combs, hand mirrors—alongside patriarch Guillermo Kahlo’s extensive photography.
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Theo Lee, Time, 12 Mar. 2026
Hundreds of posters, photographs, letters and personal effects will shed light on how Norma became Marilyn, and how Marilyn became a global phenomenon still in the spotlight more than 60 years after her death.
—Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 12 Mar. 2026
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.
—Emilee Coblentz, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
Others spent months scouring the river for personal effects.
—Gary Fields, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
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Theo Lee, Time, 12 Mar. 2026
Hundreds of posters, photographs, letters and personal effects will shed light on how Norma became Marilyn, and how Marilyn became a global phenomenon still in the spotlight more than 60 years after her death.
—Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 12 Mar. 2026
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.
—Emilee Coblentz, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
Others spent months scouring the river for personal effects.
—Gary Fields, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for personal effects
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“Personal effects.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/personal%20effects. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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