How to Use seizing in a Sentence
seizing
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As though the only thing worse than my child seizing is being surprised by it.
—Taylor Harris, Time, 18 Sep. 2021
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The seizing of Deir al-Zour punctuates the turnaround Mr. Assad has managed in more than six years of war.
—Anne Barnard and Margaret Coker, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
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The simplicity was in the seizing, something that has not always been the case this season for the Miami Heat.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2023
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That turmoil would include a seizing up of the short-term funding markets that keep the economy going.
—Matt Egan, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
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But the seizing of that eight-square-mile spit of volcanic debris was exceedingly costly.
—New York Times, 29 June 2022
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The search warrant return record does not report the seizing of Kohberger’s cellphone or his car, though each is now in police custody.
—oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2023
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The seizing of the tanker late Friday was seen as a significant escalation.
—Aya Batrawy, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2019
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Mr Kagame, whose seizing of power ended the genocide, reimposed order.
—The Economist, 13 July 2017
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This is not to minimize Golden State’s championship pedigree and seizing of the series.
—Dallas News, 23 May 2022
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Whether that means learning a new skill or harnessing your talents in a different way, the opportunity is there for the seizing.
—cleveland, 13 Mar. 2020
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The sudden spate of attacks across the country has upended the relative calm that followed the Taliban’s seizing of power last August, which ended 20 years of war.
—New York Times, 1 May 2022
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Unexplained-wealth orders will make the seizing of such assets easier.
—The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
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President Biden has said the seizing of reporters' records will be stopped under his administration.
—Barbara Starr, CNN, 14 June 2021
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Searcy was also charged in two additional cases, also involving the seizing of money from people who had been stopped.
—Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 11 Nov. 2019
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Different day, same stiffness, same slicing, same seizing.
—Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021
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Alabama law awards 100 percent of the proceeds of successful forfeitures to the policing agencies doing the seizing and the prosecutors handling the cases.
—John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, al, 7 Oct. 2019
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As the insurrection unfolded Friday night, beginning with the seizing of two bridges in Istanbul by military forces, Mr. Erdogan was not heard from for hours.
—Tim Arango and Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times, 16 July 2016
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Meaning, presumably the border patrol under the Biden administration did the seizing?
—Chris Cillizza, CNN, 30 Nov. 2021
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The occupation of 2928 Magnolia Street was a loving act of good mothering, a seizing of the means of caretaking that racial capitalism so regularly denies Black mothers.
—Maximillian Alvarez, The New Republic, 22 Jan. 2020
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Regulation that stifles that innovation would represent a seizing of the market by the only companies rich and well-connected enough to navigate the FDA’s costly approval process.
—Jacob Grier, Slate Magazine, 1 Aug. 2017
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Announcers constantly call attention to the seizing of momentum.
—Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 18 Nov. 2022
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Those efforts will include fending off attempts by the Russians to undermine the financial restrictions, targeting the use of cryptocurrency to avoid sanctions and the seizing of Russian oligarchs’ assets, the Justice Department said.
—NBC News, 2 Mar. 2022
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Congressional power fell in the lap of Republicans, thanks to the departure of Wigfall and his southern colleagues; their seizing of it seems, in retrospect, less a matter of superior gamesmanship than a law of political gravity.
—Andrew Ferguson, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2020
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HRW’s report also highlights other tactics used to silence Palestinian dissent and punish activists, among them the seizing of phones, leaving investigations and charges open, and coercing detainees to promise to stop any further criticism.
—Mohammed Daraghmeh, The Seattle Times, 23 Oct. 2018
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And the state carrier, Aeroflot, has stopped all international flights, a decision industry analysts say would prevent the seizing of planes leased from Western companies under international sanctions.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 9 Mar. 2022
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