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#1 2007-12-11 03:17:20

Craig C Clarke
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"seizes to be"

Spotted here in the featured comment:
“innovation seizes to be innovation when everyone’s doing it.”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470705/

Probably not an eggcorn, although seizes could be seen a way of seeing something stopping or an end to it…

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#2 2007-12-11 12:09:51

TootsNYC
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Re: "seizes to be"

or it “seizes up”—freezes in place, becomes immobile, and therefore not itself anymore.

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