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sequester

verb as in isolate, seclude

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Used, hubcap-free tires are well known to sequester standing water—a perfect breeding ground for the next generation of mosquitos.

The statement was solely focused on spending levels under the omnibus and their increase over the sequester.

The Budget Control Act of 2011 and the sequester have cut discretionary spending across the board.

And the overall funding levels, while better than the sequester, are still awfully low.

It provides $63 billion in sequester relief, which is partially offset by a $23 billion mix of spending cuts and “fees.”

Some hoped to overthrow all law and order, that they might revel in the wealth they could then sequester.

If any proven guilt results you shall sequester the property of offenders, in order to assure the judgment.

I have been sent to sequester myself in my see; I have been set to gnaw my fingers as they had been old bones thrown to a dog.

As surely as the wolf retires before cities, does the fairy sequester herself from the haunts of the licensed victualer.

All that was necessary was to sequester the vessels and goods of merchants belonging to the nation at which it wished to strike.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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