sequester

verb

si-ˈkwe-stər How to pronounce sequester (audio)
Definition of sequesternext
1
as in to isolate
to set or keep apart from others sequestered the woman until she was no longer contagious

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2
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 Once sequestered, jurors are not allowed any contact with the outside world and - unlike in many US jurisdictions - their deliberations must remain confidential. — Chris Lau, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026 The money was nominally to pay civil servants and prop up infrastructure in a territory sequestered by an Israeli blockade, but many observers agreed that Hamas diverted a significant sum to its military wing. — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026 Those deeper roots also sequester more carbon, reducing pollution in the atmosphere. — ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026 In contrast, heavy metals are sequestered by proteins such as metallothioneins or accumulate in bony tissues. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for sequester
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sequester
  1. isolate
  2. confiscate
  3. separate
  4. remove
  5. segregate
  6. cut off
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  • One of the other things that Claude noticed was that these array of associated reverse transcriptases seem to be isolated to jumbo phages, which have very large genomes for bacteriophage.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Adapted from Hsiao Li-hung’s novel, the film follows Thik-hông (Lu), an orphan who marries into a wealthy family, is widowed young and sees her son sent away to Japan, leaving her isolated behind the walls of the family estate.
    — Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
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  • Those numbers include 759 false identification cards confiscated, 378 alcohol-possession-by-a-minor violations and 98 fake-ID citations during the calendar-year reporting period, according to Oxford Police.
    — Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Police returned 13 of the cats confiscated in the raid to their owners.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
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  • The mediator does an intense workout taking the offers and counteroffers between the parties, up and down an elegant staircase that separates the teams.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
  • This allows the researchers to produce hydrogen and epoxide without a membrane separating the electrodes.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
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  • The woman contacted her 72-year-old father, who came out of the house to remove Gonzalez.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • While no service can promise to remove all your data from the internet, a data removal service can monitor and automate the process of removing your information from hundreds of sites continuously over a longer period.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
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  • At one point over two thirds of Sloss's entry-level workforce was composed of Black labor, which was socially and hierarchically segregated and, up until 1928, often sourced from nearby prisons.
    — Leslie Pariseau, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2026
  • School districts cannot segregate on the basis of national origin.
    — Courtney Kan, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2026
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  • The elliptical passage of time across the film’s broader structure also manifests more directly in how Tanaka shapes a scene, sometimes cutting off before the final word spoken.
    — Kambole Campbell, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The Cowboys will look to cut off the potential of a contagion being further passed around the locker room ahead of their Week 6 clash with the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night at Lambeau Field.
    — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Oct. 2026
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“Sequester.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sequester. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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