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By 2014, Islamic State had seized control of large swaths of Iraq and Syria.

FBI officials seized over 150 pipe bombs from the house of a Virginia man who used pictures of President Joe Biden as target practice, according to recently released court documents.

From Salon

It wasn’t Carter’s fault that oil prices tripled and wrecked our economy, or that a band of Iranians seized hostages and held on to them for 444 days in Tehran.

From Salon

The Sinai Peninsula, seized by Israel in 1967, was returned to Egypt in 1982 — the year after Carter, by then a widely mocked figure in the United States, left office.

Checks showed he also had no MOT and police seized his Range Rover.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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