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sequester

verb

si-ˈkwe-stər

Definition of sequester

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 In bogs, history is sequestered and suspended in time, but can be revealed at any moment, just as layers of peat can be uncovered. — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026 While Atlanta’s luxury hotels are mainly sequestered to corporate Midtown and Buckhead, Forth’s arrival in Old Fourth Ward brings an exciting luxurious element to the neighborhood. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026 Moments later, MacKinney storms in, kills one of Colum’s guards, and orders his men to round up the castle’s women and sequester them in the chapel. — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026 As atmospheric carbon rises to levels beyond precedent in human history and consequently raises the global temperature to levels unprecedented on the human scale, the importance of places where carbon is sequestered becomes ever greater. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for sequester

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Lip liner ranked among the strongest prestige makeup segments, though those numbers don’t isolate demand for concealer lips or anti-blush specifically.

— Ashley Lynch, Charlotte Observer, 3 Nov. 2026
The investigation is ongoing, but preliminarily, investigators believe the shooting was isolated and there’s no ongoing threat to the public, Kellogg said.

— Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026

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Escalona-Marrero arranged with a co-conspirator in Mexico to ship Cuban passports to the United States so Border Patrol would not confiscate them and travelers could later use them in asylum applications, authorities said.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026
The roughly 3-inch pocket knife was confiscated by authorities, Manfre said.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026

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Next coil targets full current With coil #17 removed, the magnet cold test facility will prepare for toroidal field coil #19, which was manufactured as a spare.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026
The Illinois State Board of Elections removed both from the ballot, finding them hundreds of valid signatures short.

— Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2026

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Courts so far have sided with California and Los Angeles County's arguments that the federal government's list is unreliable, and that creating a novel system to segregate ballots while voting is already underway is infeasible.

— Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 2 Nov. 2026
The administration, for its part, said segregating the ballots was a modest request that would eventually allow legal votes to still be counted.

— Lindsay Whitehurst, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026

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Police in South Africa have arrested five suspects in connection with a violent farm robbery in the North West province in which a 50-year-old farmer was shot and had his ears cut off.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
The village of Chama in New Mexico was evacuated and cut off by road closures.

— Christopher Weber, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026

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