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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

Such clouds are why the star count methods failed: From almost any viewpoint in the galaxy, they would occlude your line of sight and produce the illusion of gazing out from near the center.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 4, 2023

That’s particularly the case for atrocity photos, since the universality of bodily suffering tends to occlude politics.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 9, 2014

In order to train the patient to breathe again through the larynx it is necessary to occlude the cannula.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson

It’s also not feminist because it occludes the men who were killed based on the same lies.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2023

But I also think that the focus on Florida occludes a bigger story.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2023

Framing major domestic disasters through the lens of war occludes a role for civilians on the front line, displacing them from our national narratives.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022

Finally, it occludes the extent to which history doesn’t repeat itself but does rhyme.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2018

In Bacon, its first creator, materialism still occludes within itself the germs of a many-sided development.

From Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels

Ms. Kiri, who is on camera almost nonstop and is in close-up much of the time, expertly holds our attention as her character’s skepticism about the paranormal world becomes increasingly occluded by worry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

Just a few rows back from the front of the stage, I watched as patches of brown, well-trodden grass — once largely visible minutes earlier — became steadily occluded by hundreds of feet.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2024

Some machine-learning approaches employ generative AI models that try to guess what lies in the occluded regions, but these models can hallucinate objects that aren't really there.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2024

At the intersection, visibility is occluded by buildings, and it’s not possible to see objects around a corner until they are very close to the intersection, Dietrerich’s statement said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2023

I wished still to cry, and attempted it again; and once again, my effort failed, all tears occluded.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

With what looks like a cataract occluding one eye for extra scariness points, and a ring of long white hair curving around his otherwise bald head, he’s played with gusto by Dan Stevens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Sadly, we are complicit in this occluding of authentic experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

“Concerns are held for the occupants of these two vehicles due to serious weather conditions” that have hampered the search effort, with low clouds occluding an aerial search, a spokesman for the police said.

From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2024

This image was taken by JWST’s NIRCam, allowing it to capture previously hidden features within and behind the occluding dust.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 21, 2022

Leukocytes become more actively phagocytic, release lysosomal enzymes, turn sticky, and aggregate together in dense masses, occluding capillaries and shutting off the blood supply.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas