sequester
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"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
“A larger tree planted would mature more quickly and sequester more carbon earlier in the lifespan of the project.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
Working with Valerie Kickhoefer in Rome’s lab, the group then found that the drug-resistant cancer cells generated many more vaults than nonresistant ones, suggesting the structures might sequester or expel chemotherapies.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 6, 2024
The performers immediately sequester themselves in their train cars.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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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
The scientists generated rice lines that express a gene that sequesters vitamin B1 in a controlled manner in the endosperm tissues.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 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
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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
In the fall of 2020, while Rowan was still sequestered in the Hamptons and his other homes because of Covid, Black summoned him to his hundred-acre spread in Bedford, N.Y.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 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
A "fundamental irregularity" also took place while the jury was sequestered that "fatally undermined the integrity of the verdicts", he argued, without giving further details.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
In the jockeys’ room he orchestrated a string of clever practical jokes, sequestered himself in corners to pore over literature, and mystified his fellow jocks with aphorisms from Omar Khayyam and “Old Waldo” Emerson.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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And then the judge orders the “triumvirate” to come in and testify, sequestering each of them so they can’t hear each other talk.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
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 contemplated sequestering seniors at home, without addressing how they would be kept fed and healthy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
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
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