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In the immediate post-second-world-war years, the US government had sequestered communist Yugoslavia’s gold reserves.

From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2018

Cavigelli’s organic systems, by contrast, had sequestered carbon at much deeper levels.

From Washington Post • May 14, 2016

“I remember crying and crying, and they had sequestered me in this room, and I overheard these two women talking, F.B.I. agents,” Mr. Parker said.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2011

It’s a major setback to the international effort to eradicate the disease, which health authorities thought they had sequestered into only Pakistan and Afghanistan.

From National Geographic

Every one, protestant or catholic, besieged or emigrant, was allowed to take his property out of the public repository where the prophet had sequestered it.

From Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist by Velde, Carl Franz van der