sequesters

verb

present tense third-person singular of sequester
1
as in separates
to set or keep apart from others sequestered the woman until she was no longer contagious

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2
as in confiscates
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 sequesters Without those nutrients, there would be no rainforest, which produces a quarter of the world’s oxygen and sequesters carbon dioxide. — Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026 According to the researchers, producing a single cubic meter of ESM sequesters more than 6 kilograms of CO2. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Dec. 2025 Ultimately, this impedes the rate at which the ocean draws down and sequesters additional CO2 from the air. — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2024 Taking the algae out cleans the freshwater lakes and rivers, and the Bloom technology also sequesters the carbon dioxide in the algae into the foam so it doesn’t get released into the atmosphere, Lam said. — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sequesters
  1. separates
  2. confiscates
  3. isolates
  4. segregates
  5. removes
  6. insulates
Verb
  • Greg Hernandez separates materials from a pile of rubble during the teardown of the Cabrini-Green projects at 1157 and 1159 Cleveland Ave.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026
  • State Drive, an ugly black roadway, separates the Science Center and its new addition from the park’s Rose Garden, and serves as a sad connector to the rest of the park.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
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  • Arriving from Barcelona, the local landlord, however, confiscates Fagas’ America rifle, given to him by his father.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Large swaths of the film are composed of close-ups of people’s faces or hands, giving seemingly mundane exchanges and gestures — say, a moment when Evans, unimpressed with Holmes’s egg-whisking technique, confiscates the bowl — greater weight.
    — Alex Barasch, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2026
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  • The defense team plans to employ Othram to conduct a Y-STR test, a method that isolates DNA from the Y chromosome to generate a profile of a male contributor in samples where female DNA is predominant.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The field is monitored by a superheterodyne circuit that isolates different frequencies in the field and looks for changes in intensity that indicate the presence of, among other things, metal objects.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of isolates
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  • The service still segregates music from podcasts, unlike Spotify.
    — Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 20 July 2026
  • The crowd was about 50-50 housed and unhoused — the invisible veil that normally segregates these two worlds had been lifted.
    — Brian Barth, Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2026
Definition of segregates
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  • Therefore, the researchers' anode not only removes a toxic contaminant but also reduces the energy needed to produce hydrogen at the cathode, increasing the system's overall hydrogen-production efficiency.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Endurance testing Heating the material triggers a chemical reaction that removes loose chlorine ions and forms strong bonds between indium, oxygen, and phosphorus.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of removes
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  • This insulates these segments of the market from the effects of fluctuating mortgage rates.
    — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2026
  • America’s geography insulates it from many conventional threats.
    — Todd J. Stein, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026
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“Sequesters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sequesters. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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