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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

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

The estate of former first minister Alex Salmond is seeking sequestration – the Scottish legal equivalent of bankruptcy – due to costs linked to court action.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2025

California has billed Arbor — and the handful of other similarly aimed projects it’s financed — as a win-win-win: wildfire mitigation, clean energy and carbon sequestration all in one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

Thus began another long month of sad sequestration inside the log.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig


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