Examples of seizure in a Sentence
Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 May 2025
On May 5, 2025, the Education Department officially resumed collections on defaulted loans, including tax refund offsets, wage garnishment of paychecks, and the seizure of Social Security benefits for the first time since 2020.
—Shahar Ziv, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Her daughter, Amanda, is disabled and has conditions including cerebral palsy and a seizure disorder.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 16 May 2025
Symptoms of invasive illness, which occurs when bacteria spread beyond the intestines, include fever, flu-like symptoms like muscle aches and fatigue, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and seizures.
—Kate Nalepinski, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
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“Seizure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seizure. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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Note: The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right against unreasonable searches and seizures. It requires that a warrant may issue only upon probable cause, and that the warrant particularly describe the persons or things to be seized. Not all seizures, however, require a warrant. A seizure that constitutes an arrest requires probable cause to be reasonable, and a stop usually requires reasonable suspicion of the particular person or persons stopped, although stops like those at drunk driving checkpoints may be justified by a plan that places explicit and neutral limitations on the conduct of police officers with no requirement of individualized suspicion.
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