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
The fact that landlords are not responsible for their tenants’ personal effects may lead some landlords to believe that the decision to purchase renters insurance is the tenant’s business.
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Ryan Barone, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Photos of personal effects are catalogued online through the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System or NamUs.
—Valerie Castro, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2024
While a product serves a purpose, there are often downstream cultural or personal effects of its purpose such as emotional self-care, helping someone unwind after a long day or saving the planet.
—Rytis Lauris, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
In some cases, the stagings were, as the term suggested, objects placed against an austere background, such as Ziyah Gafic’s 2012 catalog of personal effects recovered from mass graves in the aftermath of the Balkans War, haunting in their simplicity.
—Emmanuel Iduma, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2024
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Ryan Barone, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Photos of personal effects are catalogued online through the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System or NamUs.
—Valerie Castro, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2024
While a product serves a purpose, there are often downstream cultural or personal effects of its purpose such as emotional self-care, helping someone unwind after a long day or saving the planet.
—Rytis Lauris, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
In some cases, the stagings were, as the term suggested, objects placed against an austere background, such as Ziyah Gafic’s 2012 catalog of personal effects recovered from mass graves in the aftermath of the Balkans War, haunting in their simplicity.
—Emmanuel Iduma, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2024
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 23 Apr. 2025.
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