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

If mortgage rates ease to the 6% level some economists expect in 2026, more borrowers could seize the opportunity to refinance.

From Barron's • Dec. 11, 2025

At the end of last month, Amazon announced it was axing 14,000 jobs, saying it needed to be "organised more leanly" to seize the opportunity provided by AI.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 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