seizer
- a word derived from seize.
Example Sentences
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His reputation as a seizer of opportunity was solidified when, after the cataclysmic collapse of in 2008, he arranged for Barclays to acquire the salvageable pieces of that bank for $1.75 billion.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2012
Always an able seizer of opportunities, General Escobar tapped the Bank of Montreal in Mexico for $108,000 before his revolution, sent the money to the U. S. where opportunities are brightest.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is generally, but wrongly, read /êkimmu/, and translated "the seizer," from /êkemu/, "to seize."
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge
A veteran seizer is generally seamed with innumerable scars.
From The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon by Baker, Samuel White, Sir
His name shall be 'Nibiru' the seizer of the middle.
From The Babylonian Legends of the Creation by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir
