be seized
Example Sentences
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Chapter 7 is known as liquidation because nonexempt assets can be seized and sold to repay your creditors.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
Rosenzweig came to suspect that the “whole” can’t be seized in one grand idea—whether Reason, History or Nation—without turning the individual into collateral damage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Among them, sanitation workers would have to give 24-hour notice and describe the property to be seized and the basis for the seizure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026
Karlshorst's representative in the assembly of the city-state of Berlin, Ukrainian-born Lilia Usik, has over the past two years been trying to ascertain if the buildings can be seized or possibly used to help Ukraine.
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026
The British declared the entire North Sea a war zone, in which even neutral ships would be stopped and searched; all goods destined for German ports would be seized and confiscated.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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