PERSONAL EFFECTS Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

personal effects

plural noun

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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 Those buildings, or barracks, contained a trove of artifacts, including the necessities and personal effects of the soldiers stationed there during Egypt’s New Kingdom era, a period of prosperity, territorial expansion and peace that lasted from around 1550 to 1077 B.C.E. —

Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024 Residences can be designed ready to occupy, save for personal effects and art works. —

Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024 When Spencer's personal effects arrived after his death, Bart Collart found his son's Marine Corps camouflage cap, known as a cover. —

CBS News, 13 Aug. 2024 As far as the individual home goes, news reports have described African-American homeowners preparing for walk-through appraisals by removing family photos and other personal effects that would indicate their race. —

Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 8 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for personal effects

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