How to Use sequestration in a Sentence

sequestration

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  • During their sequestration, jurors were not allowed to speak to reporters.
  • Under sequestration, the CDC, which managed the stockpile at the time, faced a 5% budget cut.
    — Yeganeh Torbati, ProPublica, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Swiss authorities seized the cars and ordered the sequestration of a yacht in 2016.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
  • The goal is to conserve more wild land to reduce the effects of climate change (through carbon sequestration) and slow species loss.
    — Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2021
  • And no amount raised by fundraisers for carbon sequestration can fix this.
    — Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The court found her guilty of sequestration and theft of the plumber's telephone, as well as complicity in violence.
    — Fox News, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The court also found the bodyguard, Rani Saida, guilty on charges of violence, sequestration and theft.
    — Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2019
  • In addition, the study says the rate of carbon sequestration will slow in the future as soil carbon content hits a ceiling.
    — NBC News, 29 Oct. 2019
  • It is not meant to replace organic, the group said, but to take it to the next level and require farmers to focus on soil health and carbon sequestration.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2020
  • Those groups also work to find new ways and try out new equipment for carbon sequestration, which keeps carbon in the soil and mitigates the amount in the atmosphere.
    — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Carbon sequestration payments could backfire if used in the wrong places.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 17 Jan. 2020
  • And some carbon compounds can bind with the minerals in clay, a form of carbon sequestration that can last hundreds or even thousands of years.
    — Jennifer Fergesen, Time, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The gas is then compressed into a liquid form and pumped underground for storage, a process know as sequestration.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Researchers will try to boost the unique landscape’s powers of carbon sequestration by replanting and re-wetting, per the Guardian.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
  • It’s done mostly through carbon sequestration, in which plants store greenhouse gases in their biomass.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Sobriety is a small price to pay for carbon sequestration.
    — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2020
  • The oil giant owns a carbon sequestration company that could benefit from the law, allowing BP to play both sides of the emissions ledger.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 6 May 2021
  • Then the resulting algal biomass can be separated from the paint and bio-charred for durable (more than 100 years) sequestration of the CO2 or, if desired, utilized as valuable byproducts of the process.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
  • Such is the on-the-ground work of what appears to be the biggest contact tracing effort in any U.S. city, with over 3,000 people making calls, knocking on doors and checking in on people's health and sequestration.
    — Jennifer Peltz, Star Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
  • The bill also would let the state lease lands to third parties that want to manage sequestration projects of their own, such as reforesting areas burned by wildfire or growing kelp.
    — Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2023
  • Those credits include carbon sequestration in state forests and lands.
    — oregonlive, 10 Dec. 2021
  • By tracing the location of food production, the research team found that about two-thirds of the carbon sequestration would occur in high-income countries.
    — K.e.d. Coan, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2022
  • So, an essential piece of the net zero puzzle is carbon removal and sequestration.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Mushroom growing, which is a part of agroforestry, can help with soil enrichment and carbon sequestration in woodlands.
    — Samantha Hendrickson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2022
  • With the Biden administration proposing to pay farmers to store carbon, soil sequestration has gained favor as a tool to fight climate change.
    — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2021
  • The sequestration process can slow if soils become saturated with carbon, and it can be completely reversed if the ground is later plowed.
    — Robert Paarlberg, Wired, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Mow to 2 inches Research at OSU is suggesting that this is the optimal height for carbon sequestration.
    — oregonlive, 7 May 2023
  • If outside influence were such a concern, the huge display of force across the city of Minneapolis would have been reason enough for sequestration.
    — Star Tribune, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The process is called actin sequestration and results in upregulated G-actin levels [13].
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Occidental is pursuing its own sequestration track in the Permian basin of Texas.
    — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024

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