occlude
Example Sentences
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To improve this, Dr Alexander suggests reducing headphone use time and using the transparency mode which can amplify the background noise as well as wearing headphones that don't completely occlude or block the ears.
From BBC • Feb. 15, 2025
It would lead to voter confusion, especially since clerks would inevitably place some stickers a few centimeters off by accident, failing to fully occlude Kennedy’s name and accidentally blocking out another.
From Slate • Sep. 24, 2024
The basic pattern is to deny or occlude, then flip the script.
From Scientific American • Sep. 22, 2022
Tech companies rely on the myth of technological inevitability to occlude the business decisions they have made and the possibility of other models.
From The Guardian • Oct. 9, 2019
In simple hare-lip the child may have difficulty in sucking, but this can usually be overcome by some mechanical contrivance to occlude the cleft.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
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