sequester

Example Sentences

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Each company that chooses to stay private sequesters wealth creation in the hands of a select few, rather than giving Main Street investors a chance to take a stake in the success of American enterprise.

From Barron's

The amount of carbon a whale can sequester in its body was estimated using current data on the biomass of whole populations and on the amount by which whale feces increase phytoplankton numbers.

From Scientific American

The law offers more than $100 billion in clean electricity tax incentives, including a 70% increase in credits for each ton of carbon captured and sequestered.

From Reuters

He has an affinity, in effect, for affinities — attractions so pronounced that, far from sequestering us in our private passions, they briefly annihilate us.

From Washington Post

Another conflict was over “nature-based solutions” as a possible remedy; the label is increasingly given to measures that use ecosystems to help buffer extreme events and to sequester carbon.

From Scientific American