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sequester

[si-kwes-ter] / sɪˈkwɛs tər /


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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

Watchdogs also caution that the math to determine whether bioenergy projects sequester or release carbon is complicated and finicky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

"At maturity, these plants will shade the creek and keep water temperatures down, not to mention sequester carbon from the atmosphere."

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 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

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

“What’s the highest end use of a tree?” he said, referring to which end-of-life use sequesters the most carbon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2024

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 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

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

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 major reason for the lower number of injuries is that children today are sequestered at home in front of computer screens rather than playing outdoors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

The first installment revolved around solar contractor Ronald Gladden, who participated in a court case along with a preposterous group of actor-jurors sequestered together for the proceedings.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

They had been sequestered on the second floor and had speculated before going to bed, said the foreman, that the snowstorm would interrupt the trial.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

From Barron's ● Dec. 9, 2025

If not done carefully, bioenergy projects run the risk of emitting carbon — not sequestering it — and polluting communities already grappling with some of the state’s dirtiest air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 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

“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


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