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They would no longer have to compete for supply with carbon-capture companies that sequester the gas underground and sell carbon-removal credits to heavy polluters, long a more profitable business than making clean fuel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

"Forests globally currently sequester about one-third of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions," said Medlyn.

From Barron's ● Jan. 6, 2026

As biomass like trees and crops grow, they sequester carbon in their leaves and branches.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2025

"Because these treatments would target receptors at the surface of pain-sensing neurons, this specificity might avoid the side effects seen with other monoclonal antibodies that sequester all nerve growth factor in the body."

From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024

Whenever he returned to Brooklyn to prepare for the next tournament or match, he tended to sequester himself in his apartment.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

There were extenuating circumstances, however, such as the COVID-19 pandemic that forced the Whitecaps to split one season between sequesters in Canada and Portland, Ore., then start the next season quarantined in Utah.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

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 ● Nov. 26, 2025

He touts the plant as a a renewable resource that sequesters carbon, too.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2024

In a 2021 piece for Curbed about stewarding urban nature, Stephanie Foo drew motivation from a London plane that annually sequesters an estimated 10,500 tons of carbon dioxide.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024

One day Etienne sits with Marie-Laure and reads to her in his feathery voice; the next he suffers from what he calls a headache and sequesters himself inside his study behind a locked door.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

May angels accompany Pope Leo’s mail-in ballot from the Vatican to the proper Chicago precinct so it doesn’t get sequestered in permanent limbo by the Justice Department.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Suu Kyi, 81, is under house arrest in the capital, Naypyidaw, according to Myanmar authorities, where she has been sequestered since being unseated in a 2021 military coup.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

The local postmaster, a Jacksonian Democrat named Alfred Huger, was unnerved by what he considered inflammatory content and sequestered the abolitionist material, rather than comply with his legal obligation to deliver the mail.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

It revealed that the lead detective who investigated the murders - a key trial witness - and two prosecution solicitors had been staying at the same hotel as the sequestered jury.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Once he’s sequestered away, he closes his eyes and sends a silent apology in G’ma’s direction, then holds his breath as he lifts the lid.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone

It also has one of the strongest offerings when it comes to capturing and sequestering carbon.

From Barron's ● Dec. 9, 2025

The peat here runs to a depth of at least nine metres, which means it has been forming for more than 9,000 years and sequestering carbon for all that time.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2025

It is produced in large quantities after flu is present and lowers the severity of infection by sequestering the virus so that it can't make copies of itself, or replicate.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024

“Here, like other hardworking immigrants, they performed tireless, invisible labor for the city, sequestering carbon, countering the heat-island effect, and reducing the pollution of storm-water runoff,” Kinney wrote.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024

Instead of sequestering herself in her bedroom with her violin, she would walk the mile and a half to the house on Winslow right after school, where Mia would be hard at work.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng