as in solitude
the state of being alone or kept apart from others
what would you bring for sequestration on a desert island?
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Recent Examples of sequestration
Cato’s Adam Michel helpfully identifies them: credits for enhanced oil recovery, for marginal wells and for carbon capture and sequestration.
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Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 17 July 2025
The new research — which will be presented this week at the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference in Prague — is centered on improving C02 sequestration.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2025
The 24 awards recently canceled by the U.S. Department of Energy were issued by the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations under the Biden administration and primarily focused on carbon capture and sequestration and decarbonization initiatives.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025
By using supercritical carbon dioxide as most of the mass, the Allam cycle can burn natural gas to generate electricity while delivering carbon dioxide at the proper temperature and pressure for sequestration.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2018
See All Example Sentences for sequestration
Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 17 July 2025
The new research — which will be presented this week at the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference in Prague — is centered on improving C02 sequestration.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2025
The 24 awards recently canceled by the U.S. Department of Energy were issued by the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations under the Biden administration and primarily focused on carbon capture and sequestration and decarbonization initiatives.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025
By using supercritical carbon dioxide as most of the mass, the Allam cycle can burn natural gas to generate electricity while delivering carbon dioxide at the proper temperature and pressure for sequestration.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sequestration
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But the journey also offered a reflective desert solitude.—
Joan Meiners,
AZCentral.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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Winter covers the park in stark whites, and snow may limit access, but the silence and solitude are unforgettable if you’re bundled up.—
Karthika Gupta,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Nov. 2025
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But instead of an epic franchise, the two are a couple in Lynne Ramsay’s suffocating drama about a woman dealing with postpartum depression and isolation amid a move from New York to Montana.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
8 Nov. 2025
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His extraordinary journey from utter isolation to human connection is revealed in the Oscar-contending documentary Ghost Boy, directed by Rodney Ascher (Room 237, A Glitch in the Matrix), winner of the Audience Award at SXSW in the Visions category.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
7 Nov. 2025
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Companies need to find real patterns in the chaos, respect user privacy, and respond quickly to changing trends.—
William Jones,
IndyStar,
6 Nov. 2025
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Despite her and Harry's emphasis on family privacy, Meghan said in her 2022 Variety interview that she wasn't necessarily opposed to Archie or Lilibet one day following her into acting.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
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White South Africans, whose roots can be traced to settlers arriving under Dutch and British colonial rule, dominated the country through a system of racial segregation known as apartheid from 1948 until its abolishment in the early 1990s.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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With each pot, cast iron skillet, and cooking utensil, Gilmore exemplified this longstanding tradition in Black life, negotiating her identity in America and resisting the ills of racial segregation that pervaded nearly every aspect of her community.—
Time,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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Rather than rob the story of its teeth, this enabled me to explore the pain, loneliness and personal demons of my characters with sympathy rather than stinging bite.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Even the smallest diversions seem to make a difference, a testament to the monkeys’ loneliness and privation.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Sequestration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sequestration. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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