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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
Privately sequestered on a five-acre plot, the estate comprises more than 10,000 square feet of living space split between three structures.
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Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 2 Jan. 2025
The work is monitored by gas detectors and third-party certified by American Carbon Registry, which mints non-fungible tokens representing the amounts of carbon sequestered by BKV and published them to the blockchain.
—Christopher Helman, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
It can be used to make plastics or synthetic fuels, which could send it back into the atmosphere, or it can be permanently sequestered underground, which is expensive.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Dec. 2024
In the long term, the company plans to sell or lease larger versions of the robots, estimating that waste from the world’s row plants can sequester roughly 2 billion tons of CO2 as biochar each year.
—Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
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Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 2 Jan. 2025
The work is monitored by gas detectors and third-party certified by American Carbon Registry, which mints non-fungible tokens representing the amounts of carbon sequestered by BKV and published them to the blockchain.
—Christopher Helman, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
It can be used to make plastics or synthetic fuels, which could send it back into the atmosphere, or it can be permanently sequestered underground, which is expensive.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Dec. 2024
In the long term, the company plans to sell or lease larger versions of the robots, estimating that waste from the world’s row plants can sequester roughly 2 billion tons of CO2 as biochar each year.
—Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
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Many users joined the app in early 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic was otherwise isolating them from community and other creative outlets.—
Clare Duffy,
CNN,
19 Jan. 2025
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The study also reveals that 46 percent of Gen Z felt stressed (compared to the 35 percent employee average), 35 percent felt depressed (compared to 20 percent average), 44 percent felt burned out (compared to 34 percent), and 30 percent felt isolated (compared to 22 percent).—
Jess Thomson,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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His service items, including his badge and firearm, were also confiscated.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Jan. 2025
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We were interrogated, the contents of our suitcase was kind of picked through and things were confiscated.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
22 Jan. 2025
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Just one vote separated Ichiro Suzuki from being a unanimous Hall of Famer.—
Jayson Stark,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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Production eventually separated the two women and booked a room in a nearby hotel for Hassan to stay in for the night.—
Esther Kang,
People.com,
23 Jan. 2025
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The move is an apparent effort to repeal President Biden’s executive order to remove potential workforce barriers for the outlined demographic in 2021.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
22 Jan. 2025
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The site, however, was removed during Trump's first term which started in 2017.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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Highland is a relic of several bygone eras: one in which burial grounds were segregated by race, but also one where cemeteries played a more active role in community and religious life.—
Natalie Wallington,
Kansas City Star,
25 Jan. 2025
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One of the biggest countries to make TikTok unavailable is China itself, where users are segregated into ByteDance’s domestic version of the app, Douyin.—
Alexandra Marquez,
NBC News,
19 Jan. 2025
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Just cut off the bottom, put them in a microwave-safe dish and microwave it for 10-15 seconds.—
Cody Godwin,
USA TODAY,
29 Jan. 2025
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Sometimes words are cut off due to breaks in the voice.—
Melissa Rudy,
Fox News,
29 Jan. 2025
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“Sequester.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sequester. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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