The word "seizing" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe an action in which something is grasped or taken forcefully and quickly. For example, "The burglar seized the jewelry before quickly fleeing the scene."
However, that doesn't mean unintentional, unconscious antisemitism isn't possible – journalists working against time and under pressure to deliver a Tory victory are certainly susceptible to seizing on the meanest image they can find, without thinking through what it connotes.
Republicans flocked to Binyamin Netanyahu's defense on Sunday, seizing on the soured relations between Barack Obama and the prime minister as ties between the US and Israel strain to their weakest point in decades.
In his mind, his return journey has all been about righting a wrong, seizing back what was his – the power, the Prime Ministerial Office, the Lodge.
Seizing his moment, he crawled in and watched, trembling, as the rebel guards searched for him.
Today, countless startups are seizing the opportunity to build big businesses.
Third, and a clear demonstration that Osborne is all politics, was his seizing on the booing that greeted the mention of Tony Blair at last week's Labour conference.
In the same list of rules, if a wife goes to the aid of her husband in a fight by seizing his foe's testicles "then you shall cut off her hand".
The tradition of royal military service continued into the early modern period with Henry VII seizing the crown from Richard III at the 1485 Battle of Bosworth ("Give me my battle-axe in my hand, / Set the crown of England on my head so high!").
He dismisses the Hollywood myths about understudies seizing their moment, inevitably depicted by a shot of editions of Variety spinning towards the camera proclaiming the overnight discovery of a new star.
Instead of seizing the chance for a new beginning, the ascending archbishop assumes all his church's mysterious sexual hang-ups.
"Rarely in the history of any criminal case has a prosecutor so directly maintained so many conflicts of interest," their motion said, before accusing Mosby of using the case for "the seizing of personal and political gain" with her husband, a Baltimore city councilman.
