sequestration
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"This matter will now rightly be passed to the Accountant in Bankruptcy and, if appointed, the new Trustees in Sequestration."
From BBC • Nov. 2, 2025
In 2016 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology closed its Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies program because the 43 projects it was involved with had all been canceled, put on hold or converted to other things.
From Scientific American • Aug. 5, 2022
Sequestration was most famously used in the 1995 O.J.
From Slate • Jun. 7, 2022
Sequestration is most common when there is heavy media coverage and heightened public interest.
From The Guardian • Sep. 23, 2019
Mr. Day, a Cromwellite, is the head of a Committee of Sequestration, and is a dishonest, canting rascal, under the thumb of his wife.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Vocabulary lists containing sequestration
Earth Science - Middle School
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The Carbon Cycle
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Earth Science - High School
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