1
as in to isolate
to set or keep apart from others
sequestered the woman until she was no longer contagious
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as in to confiscate
to take ownership or control of (something) by right of one's authority
police found and sequestered several illegal weapons
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Recent Examples of sequester
The contestants don’t have access to their phones, which heightens the intensity of the camp-like experience, and mirrors the restrictions of other sequestered Netflix dating shows like Love Is Blind.
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Kayti Burt, TIME, 12 Feb. 2025
The technique can also sequester carbon for thousands of years, instead of hundreds of years with other processes.
—Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
Trees get the limelight a lot of the time, but soil actually sequesters 3-4 times the amount of carbon than trees.
—Maeve Campbell, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
If the sea is full of cyanobacteria communicating by nanotube and vesicle, then perhaps this exchange of resources could affect something as fundamental as the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere or the amount of carbon sequestered in the ocean.
—Veronique Greenwood, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2025
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Kayti Burt, TIME, 12 Feb. 2025
The technique can also sequester carbon for thousands of years, instead of hundreds of years with other processes.
—Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
Trees get the limelight a lot of the time, but soil actually sequesters 3-4 times the amount of carbon than trees.
—Maeve Campbell, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
If the sea is full of cyanobacteria communicating by nanotube and vesicle, then perhaps this exchange of resources could affect something as fundamental as the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere or the amount of carbon sequestered in the ocean.
—Veronique Greenwood, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sequester
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Series two, like its predecessor, suggests that a balanced approach is not about completely isolating work from life, but rather about establishing a dynamic interplay between the two.—
Benjamin Laker,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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This has hallmarks of emotional abuse – non-physical behaviors meant to isolate, control and frighten.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Mar. 2025
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Investigators had confiscated more than 335 pounds of meth, nearly 9 pounds of heroin, more than 1,500 fentanyl pills and more than $150,000 during the years-long operation before Wednesday’s seizures.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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But sneaking sausage is tame compared to these strange items confiscated by TSA.—
Lanee Lee,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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The couple wed in Boca Raton, Fla., on Feb. 26, 2006, and had two sons, Benjamin, born in 2009, and Lincoln, born in 2010, before separating in 2012.—
Emily Krauser,
People.com,
23 Mar. 2025
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Davis was already separated from Freddie’s mother at the time.—
Andy Swift,
TVLine,
23 Mar. 2025
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They were also barred from installing any software on SSA devices and ordered to remove any such software installed since the beginning of the Trump administration.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
22 Mar. 2025
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Each of those originals have offensive depictions of non-white characters (like the Siamese cats in Lady and the crows in Dumbo), and each of their 2019 remakes rightfully remove those depictions.—
Josh Spiegel,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Mar. 2025
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The inability of Black veterans to access home loans left them segregated and sidelined from democracy even after the Voting Rights Act.—
Made by History,
TIME,
25 Mar. 2025
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Additionally, the University of Minnesota is being investigated for allegedly operating a program that segregates students on the basis of race.—
Cheyanne Mumphrey,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Mar. 2025
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Most recently, Ukrainian air force Sukhoi Su-27 fighters have been hurling the bombs at bridges in Belgorod Oblast in western Russia, aiming to cut off Russian troops in the oblast’s border region, where Ukrainian brigades have launched small-scale incursions.—
David Axe,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Bricker was born without legs due to a uterine band cutting off the blood supply to her lower limbs in utero.—
Colson Thayer,
People.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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“Sequester.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sequester. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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