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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

There’s evidence that buckwheat and bush sunflower can take up lead, and saltbush can ensnare arsenic, Fang said, also name-checking corn, squash and cucumber for their ability to sequester contaminants such as dioxins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2025

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

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2025

"Because these treatments would target receptors at the surface of pain-sensing neurons, this specificity might avoid the side effects seen with other monoclonal antibodies that sequester all nerve growth factor in the body."

From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 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

“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

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

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 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

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

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

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

They then sequestered themselves for a few minutes to discuss the schedule.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

"This is the Earth's way of sequestering carbon. Very effective on its own, but it may take hundreds of thousands if not millions of years," said Malkowski.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2024

“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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