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sequester

[si-kwes-ter] / sɪˈkwɛs tər /


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

From Barron's ● Jan. 6, 2026

Arbor hopes to take that waste, blast it through a “vegetarian rocket engine” to produce energy, then sequester all of the carbon the process would generate underground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

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

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2025

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

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

Urchins devour kelp, which sequesters carbon and serves as shelter and food for a vast array of marine life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025

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

When added to soils, biochar sequesters carbon in the soil for centuries.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2023

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

Still, Frei admits she had some worries about being sequestered from the main cast so soon in the show’s run.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

Now, of course, that’s a ridiculous premise because it suggests that people only come to the president, he never goes anywhere else, that he should be sequestered in this fortress.

From Slate ● May 4, 2026

The afternoon sunlight was luxuriant on her skin; she’d been sequestered in her car for the past three hours.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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

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

To Bush, the sequestering of knowledge and policy authority had one special virtue: it clipped Lawrence’s wings.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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