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

From Barron's ● Jan. 6, 2026

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

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2025

“A larger tree planted would mature more quickly and sequester more carbon earlier in the lifespan of the project.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

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

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

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

The soft tissue and lipids inside that many carcasses "translates to roughly 6.7 million tonnes of sequestered carbon," Xiaotong Peng said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 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

But things have changed over the years, she says, with the gradual loss of local businesses and a pandemic that isolated an already sequestered town.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025

His letters to Madison also featured the Monticellan Jefferson, the statesman-turned-farmer sequestered in “my remote canton.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

"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

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

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik