seized
Example Sentences
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The areas where they were deployed are located at the edges of territory seized in recent weeks by the UAE-backed STC.
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Over the pre-Christmas weekend, the U.S. seized one oil tanker leaving Venezuela and pursued another.
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Over the pre-Christmas weekend, the U.S. seized one oil tanker leaving Venezuela and pursued another.
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Recall that in May 2007, the U.S. asset-backed market seized up for a few days, only to return to apparent normalcy—until the global financial crisis later that year revealed what had been lurking underneath.
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The Saudi strikes came a day after Saudi Arabia urged the separatists to withdraw from Hadramawt and Mahra provinces, seized earlier this month.
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