sequesters
- present tense form of sequester (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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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
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
When added to soils, biochar sequesters carbon in the soil for centuries.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2023
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
