sequester
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Synonyms & Antonyms for sequester
Synonyms: Verb
cut off, insulate, isolate, seclude, segregate, separate
Antonyms: Verb
desegregate, integrate, reintegrate
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The jury was sequestered until a verdict was reached. He was sequestered in his room.Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Huebner asked jurors to be sequestered during daytime only. — Sydney Czyzon, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Man accused of killing Milwaukee Police Officer Matthew Rittner to face jury trial next month," 4 June 2019 Seaweed sequesters nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon, meaning seaweed farms are carbon negative. — Tamar Adler, Vogue, "Is Seaweed the Perfect Food?," 15 Feb. 2019 Every acre of restored temperate forest can sequester 3 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. — Umair Irfan, Vox, "Sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere, explained," 24 Oct. 2018 Limited contact Untreated foragers ended up with much higher pathogen loads than the queen and the young nurses, sequestered away in their nest. — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, "Sick ants stay away from the kids," 26 Nov. 2018 Eaton reviewed the video, then sequestered the jury Friday and began a hearing on the matter, which included testimony from Loring and Severin, as well as the county’s technology expert and Krebs. — Mike Carter, The Seattle Times, "Sheriff’s use of courtroom camera to view juror’s notebook, lawyer’s notes sparks dismissal of criminal case," 4 Feb. 2019 Milling surplus trees sequesters their carbon indefinitely and renews the forest’s ability to store still more. — Tom Mcclintock, WSJ, "Only Good Management Can Prevent Forest Fires," 17 Dec. 2018 And every year, one friend is picked to not come to this awesome party and instead be sequestered away just in case something happens at the party. — Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, "Rick Perry Is the 2019 Designated Survivor. Here's What That Means.," 6 Feb. 2019 The shelves also made room for objects normally sequestered in the living room, offsetting a potentially clinical feel. — Eleanore Park, WSJ, "An Industrial Kitchen for People Who Love Nature," 19 Nov. 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
The list included bolstering annual defense spending to $700 billion by eliminating the defense sequester, exporting energy to Eastern Europe, and arming Ukraine with lethal weapons such as antitank missiles. — Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, "Trump’s claim that he’s been ‘much tougher on Russia than Obama’," 22 Feb. 2018 Congress passed two-year deals in 2013 and 2015 to prevent the sequester from taking effect, and is likely to reach an agreement again. — Kristina Peterson, WSJ, "New White House, Congressional Spending Fights on the Horizon," 16 Feb. 2019 The difference between what's being emitted due to federal land use and what federal lands sequester can help future federal government administrations make energy and leasing decisions. — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, "Drilling on US public lands causes 24 percent of the nation’s CO2 emissions," 27 Nov. 2018 Three times between September and November, bursts of gunfire near MaKenzie’s public charter elementary school led DC Prep to seal off its Washington campus and sequester its students. — John Woodrow Cox, The Seattle Times, "Numerous school lockdowns are traumatizing the nation’s children," 26 Dec. 2018 Just last Friday, the president signed into law an authorization bill that blows up the sequester and increases spending by more than $500 billion. — James Hohmann, Washington Post, "The Daily 202: Trump budget highlights disconnect between populist rhetoric and plutocrat reality," 13 Feb. 2018 The more crops you plant, burn, and sequester, the more carbon dioxide your remove from the air. — Umair Irfan, Vox, "Sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere, explained," 24 Oct. 2018 In the five years the sequester has been in effect, the Department has lost $484 billion dollars compared to Gates’s budget plan. — Jim Talent, National Review, "The Budget Deal Won’t Be Enough to Get the Armed Forces Trump Wants," 13 Feb. 2018 Mortara survived, and when word reached church authorities that a baptized Catholic was living in a Jewish home, the Inquisition ordered his sequester under laws requiring Catholics be raised as such. — Nicole Winfield, Fox News, "Case of Jewish boy taken by pope flares over doctored memoir," 20 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'sequester.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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Note: Juries are sequestered in order to preserve their impartiality. Witnesses are sequestered so that their testimony is not influenced by the testimony of prior witnesses.
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