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Chris -- 2018-04-11
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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or it “seizes up”—freezes in place, becomes immobile, and therefore not itself anymore.
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