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sequestration

[see-kwes-tray-shuhn, si-kwes-] / ˌsi kwɛsˈtreɪ ʃən, sɪ kwɛs- /


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The company is looking for $328 million from strategic investors to build its biggest carbon-capture and sequestration facility to date in oil-rich Alberta.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Interest in biofertilisers is also tied to environmental concerns, with researchers saying they increase organic carbon in the soil, contributing to carbon sequestration.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

His family planned to continue the legal action but in November his estate was placed into sequestration – the Scottish legal equivalent of bankruptcy – due to costs linked to court action.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

They help slow climate change by removing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in trees, a process known as carbon sequestration.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 15, 2026

Any inconvenience due to our sequestration will be outweighed by the Protection afforded both against the PoIitself and against other Tumults of this Colony, of which we all must be sensible.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson


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