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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 The feds gave the state a silly 48-hour deadline to agree to change constitutional law, dump common sense and sequester these 20,000 ballots, if they were even returned, to double-check they were cast by valid voters. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for sequester

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Cybergenetics isolated the unknown person’s genotypes from each DNA sample and compared them to determine whether the cases were connected.

— Maria Aguilar Prieto, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2026
In 1997 the City of Annapolis isolated Eastport when the Spa Creek bridge was temporarily closed for unannounced repairs.

— Nats_syndicator, Baltimore Sun, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of isolate

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But on the criminal side, prosecutors help petitioners pull together information about whether a defendant has guns that need to be confiscated, which then gets forwarded on to the relevant law enforcement agency.

— Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2026
The justice minister said police, soldiers, and mining officials confiscated more than 500 trucks and machinery at several sites in the country’s southeast.

— Ruben Nyanguila, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 2026

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The leather chain separates from the meat chain early and runs through more hands, weakening the link between the tannery and the farm.

— Maria Brozman, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2026
The couple briefly separated in 2025 after the first season of the reality show had aired, but later reconciled.

— Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026

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The House on Tuesday turned aside a resolution to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, halting an effort to remove the Pentagon chief for his conduct in office and his handling of the war in Iran.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2026
And while Avon itself is quieter than its neighbors, complimentary shuttles run to both Vail and Beaver Creek, so you’re not cut off from the valley’s buzziest restaurants and après spots—just slightly removed from them.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 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

Definition of segregate

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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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