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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

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

The performers immediately sequester themselves in their train cars.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

There were extenuating circumstances, however, such as the COVID-19 pandemic that forced the Whitecaps to split one season between sequesters in Canada and Portland, Ore., then start the next season quarantined in Utah.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

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

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

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

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

Dementia has historically been a hidden disease in which affected individuals are sequestered at home or segregated in day programs or institutions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 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

Bobby worried that his funds in the Union Bank of Switzerland might be sequestered, so he wanted to get the money out of there as soon as possible.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

And then the judge orders the “triumvirate” to come in and testify, sequestering each of them so they can’t hear each other talk.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026

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

It contemplated sequestering seniors at home, without addressing how they would be kept fed and healthy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025

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

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik