Sequester
verb
To keep something or someone separate or hidden away from others.
The trial was held in sequester to ensure a fair hearing.
Often appears as...
- sequester a jury
- sequester evidence
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To take hold of someone's property until they pay the money they owe.
The court had the power to sequester the defendant's property.
Often appears as...
- sequester property
- sequester assets
Usage tips
Formal
Legal
verb
To cause to be carbon stored or isolated from the environment.
The dense forest sequesters a large amount of carbon.
Often appears as...
- sequester carbon
- trees sequester
Usage tips
Formal, Approving
Scientific
verb
To keep something or someone separate or hidden away from others.
The trial was held in sequester to ensure a fair hearing.
Often appears as...
- sequester a jury
- sequester evidence
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To take hold of someone's property until they pay the money they owe.
The court had the power to sequester the defendant's property.
Often appears as...
- sequester property
- sequester assets
Usage tips
Formal
Legal
verb
To cause to be carbon stored or isolated from the environment.
The dense forest sequesters a large amount of carbon.
Often appears as...
- sequester carbon
- trees sequester
Usage tips
Formal, Approving
Scientific
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Privacy Intended
Used when someone needs to be kept away for confidentiality or peace.
The celebrity sequestered herself in her hotel room to avoid paparazzi.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Physical
Sequestering doesn't always mean physical isolation; it can be about hiding information.
Sensitive documents must be sequestered from unauthorized personnel.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Situation
Sequestering is often a temporary measure until a specific goal is achieved.
The jurors were sequestered until they reached a verdict.
Pro Tip 1/3Privacy Intended
Used when someone needs to be kept away for confidentiality or peace.
The celebrity sequestered herself in her hotel room to avoid paparazzi.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Physical
Sequestering doesn't always mean physical isolation; it can be about hiding information.
Sensitive documents must be sequestered from unauthorized personnel.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Situation
Sequestering is often a temporary measure until a specific goal is achieved.
The jurors were sequestered until they reached a verdict.
Pro Tip 1/3Privacy Intended
Used when someone needs to be kept away for confidentiality or peace.
The celebrity sequestered herself in her hotel room to avoid paparazzi.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Physical
Sequestering doesn't always mean physical isolation; it can be about hiding information.
Sensitive documents must be sequestered from unauthorized personnel.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Situation
Sequestering is often a temporary measure until a specific goal is achieved.
The jurors were sequestered until they reached a verdict.
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6 ways mushrooms can...
you could confirm carbon credits are being sequestered by the trees that are coming through Life Boxes. You could take a cardboard box delivering shoes, you could add water -- I developed this for the refugee community -- corns, beans and squash and onions. I took several containers -- my wife said, if I could do this, anybody could --
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Wade Davis: Cultures at...
To this day, they remain ruled by a ritual priesthood but the training for the priesthood is rather extraordinary. The young acolytes are taken away from their families at the age of three and four, sequestered in a shadowy world of darkness in stone huts at the base of glaciers for 18
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Garth Lenz: The true...
twice as much greenhouse gases are sequestered in the boreal per acre than the tropical rainforests. And what we're doing is we're destroying this carbon sink, turning it into a carbon bomb. And we're replacing that with the largest industrial project in the history of the world,
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Creating living...
when these robots sequester this oxygen robbing process they remove it from the ecological system and by responding to the this process specifically they act as agents within that system we can we can look at many of our cities today and we understand that they're built in
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What if there were 1...
of greenhouse gases. But what can trees do to help in this fight? And how do they sequester carbon in the first place? Like all plants, trees consume atmospheric carbon through a chemical reaction called photosynthesis. This process uses energy from sunlight
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A climate change...
are able to produce all the food and resources that we need for human populations and more, and also soils that are better capable of sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and helping with climate change mitigation.
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Jonathan Trent: Energy...
into our floating structure, and the waste water provides nutrients for the algae to grow, and they sequester CO2 that would otherwise go off into the atmosphere as a greenhouse gas. They of course use solar energy to grow,
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The new urgency of...
We also have to tackle regenerative agriculture. There is the opportunity to sequester a great deal of carbon in topsoils around the world by changing the agricultural techniques. There is a farmer-led movement to do that.
Video examples
How we can turn the tide...
There could be proposals around giant kelp forests or seagrass, or about forms of plants that have deeper roots and can sequester across the planet. But suppose a major proposal that came out was about reforestation.
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Safari Live - Day 380 PIPE...
hello gosh I really love them they're both bobbitt sequestered and the black color bar but but the black honor bar would call I really really like which I could never do to save my life I
Video examples
6 ways mushrooms can...
you could confirm carbon credits are being sequestered by the trees that are coming through Life Boxes. You could take a cardboard box delivering shoes, you could add water -- I developed this for the refugee community -- corns, beans and squash and onions. I took several containers -- my wife said, if I could do this, anybody could --
Video examples
Wade Davis: Cultures at...
To this day, they remain ruled by a ritual priesthood but the training for the priesthood is rather extraordinary. The young acolytes are taken away from their families at the age of three and four, sequestered in a shadowy world of darkness in stone huts at the base of glaciers for 18
Video examples
Garth Lenz: The true...
twice as much greenhouse gases are sequestered in the boreal per acre than the tropical rainforests. And what we're doing is we're destroying this carbon sink, turning it into a carbon bomb. And we're replacing that with the largest industrial project in the history of the world,
Video examples
Creating living...
when these robots sequester this oxygen robbing process they remove it from the ecological system and by responding to the this process specifically they act as agents within that system we can we can look at many of our cities today and we understand that they're built in
Video examples
What if there were 1...
of greenhouse gases. But what can trees do to help in this fight? And how do they sequester carbon in the first place? Like all plants, trees consume atmospheric carbon through a chemical reaction called photosynthesis. This process uses energy from sunlight
Video examples
A climate change...
are able to produce all the food and resources that we need for human populations and more, and also soils that are better capable of sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and helping with climate change mitigation.
Video examples
Jonathan Trent: Energy...
into our floating structure, and the waste water provides nutrients for the algae to grow, and they sequester CO2 that would otherwise go off into the atmosphere as a greenhouse gas. They of course use solar energy to grow,
Video examples
The new urgency of...
We also have to tackle regenerative agriculture. There is the opportunity to sequester a great deal of carbon in topsoils around the world by changing the agricultural techniques. There is a farmer-led movement to do that.
Video examples
How we can turn the tide...
There could be proposals around giant kelp forests or seagrass, or about forms of plants that have deeper roots and can sequester across the planet. But suppose a major proposal that came out was about reforestation.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 380 PIPE...
hello gosh I really love them they're both bobbitt sequestered and the black color bar but but the black honor bar would call I really really like which I could never do to save my life I
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Quote examples
Tatiana Schlossberg
When whales die, their bodies sink to the bottom of the ocean and over time become part of the marine sediment layer, where they can sequester the carbon dioxide they have accumulated during their life span, an average of 33 tons for a great whale species, keeping it out of the atmosphere for hundreds or thousands of years.
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Ted Yoho
American Politician
If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.
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Paul Westerberg
American Musician
Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.
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Annalee Newitz
American Journalist
Cities might become biological entities, walls hung with curtains of algae that glow at night and sequester carbon, and floors made from tweaked cellular material that strengthens like bones as we walk on it.
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Kirk Hammett
American Musician
Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.
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Paul Dini
American Writer
To overcome any form of adversity, to not give up, to not give up on yourself, your dreams, to not sequester yourself away from people - that's the most important thing to do with your life.
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Pierce Brosnan
Irish Actor
I enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Poet
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Lorenz Hart
American Musician
How we love sequestering, where no pests are pestering.
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Rodney Frelinghuysen
American Politician
I hate the sequester. I hate it.
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Tatiana Schlossberg
When whales die, their bodies sink to the bottom of the ocean and over time become part of the marine sediment layer, where they can sequester the carbon dioxide they have accumulated during their life span, an average of 33 tons for a great whale species, keeping it out of the atmosphere for hundreds or thousands of years.
Quote examples
Ted Yoho
American Politician
If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.
Quote examples
Paul Westerberg
American Musician
Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.
Quote examples
Annalee Newitz
American Journalist
Cities might become biological entities, walls hung with curtains of algae that glow at night and sequester carbon, and floors made from tweaked cellular material that strengthens like bones as we walk on it.
Quote examples
Kirk Hammett
American Musician
Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.
Quote examples
Paul Dini
American Writer
To overcome any form of adversity, to not give up, to not give up on yourself, your dreams, to not sequester yourself away from people - that's the most important thing to do with your life.
Quote examples
Pierce Brosnan
Irish Actor
I enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble.
Quote examples
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Poet
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Quote examples
Lorenz Hart
American Musician
How we love sequestering, where no pests are pestering.
Quote examples
Rodney Frelinghuysen
American Politician
I hate the sequester. I hate it.
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