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access, attack, bout, case, fit, siege, spell, turn
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Vaping continues to be at the forefront of the public health dialogue—multiple people have been hospitalized as a result of severe lung damage from vaping, and e-cigarette use has also been linked to seizures among those who vape. — Maggie O'neill, Health.com, "What Is Lipoid Pneumonia—and Can You Get It From Vaping?," 23 Aug. 2019 Meanwhile, official reports show a 23% drop in homicides, a 22% fall in auto thefts and a 9% jump in drug seizures. — Washington Post, "Killings by police divide Brazilian city weary of crime," 22 Aug. 2019 The animal shelter has been inundated with animal seizures this summer, reaching over-capacity levels several times. — Rebecca Hennes, Houston Chronicle, "Houston-area people, moments that went viral this summer," 22 Aug. 2019 Sure, nicotine is harmful even when it isn’t smoked: vaping nicotine is still highly addictive, can harm the development of adolescent brains, and can even cause seizures. — Sara Harrison, WIRED, "Vaping May Harm Your Blood Flow—Even Without Nicotine," 20 Aug. 2019 There’s no way possible that all these children in Colorado could get seizure control and get off all their medications without using different ratios and adding THC and THCA. — Mike Adams, chicagotribune.com, "What are the benefits of full-spectrum cannabis extracts?," 20 Aug. 2019 The study found no subsequent indication of violence involving the subjects of the gun-seizure orders. — John Woolfolk, The Mercury News, "Study: California’s “red flag” law may have helped reduce mass shootings," 19 Aug. 2019 By the time the new CITES regulations went into effect, rosewood seizures in Guatemala had already begun declining, says CONAP’s Beltetón. — Carlos Duarte, National Geographic, "The fight to protect the world’s most trafficked wild commodity," 16 Aug. 2019 Last year, there were 11 seizures totaling 5,872 pounds. — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, "The Coast Guard found $1 million worth of marijuana floating off California," 16 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'seizure.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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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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