seize the opportunity

Example Sentences

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“What we have done,” he said in 1997, “is to seize the opportunity that other people did not see.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Buyers are eager to seize the opportunity to secure lower rates—but low supply means those savings might not last.

From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026

Neither Netflix nor Paramount have offered much insight into how they would incorporate Warner Bros into their current offerings or seize the opportunity to launch new kinds of streaming packages.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025

But what would it look like if he did seize the opportunity?

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2025

Ebright seemed eager to seize the opportunity to exact revenge for the wrongs he had imputed to Pocock.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown