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"possess" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often have (4 letters).
Definitions
have ownership or possession of
Used in a sentence
“He does not even possess a working telephone.”
“Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds, which hardly any later friend can obtain.”
“[T]he ship turned and made slowly for her wharf under the wall, bringing even more fairly to view the life with which the river at that point was possessed.”
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01“Have”7 letters
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