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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

The series begins with these stereotypes, then works to reveal the humanity that the stereotypes occlude.

From New York Times ● May 13, 2022

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 Jackson, Chevalier

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

The latter then occludes the tunnels by filling them up with cells, and continuing its wood-forming activity gradually buries them deeper and deeper in the wood.

From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall

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

“I was living in an occluded hallucination,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 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

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

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

His team beat Oklahoma, 21-14, in the Sugar Bowl national title game Jan. 4, 2004, and it was a matter of labor occluding art rather than today’s splashy fashion of art occluding labor.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2021

We know objectively how much the ornaments overwhelm the tree, but we don’t really grasp it until we try and look at the tree without the occluding ornaments.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2016

Problems are addressed with great fanfare, occluding whether the fanfare presents a solution at all.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2014

But deep in the fields the brownish stalks rise from the earth to more than twice her height, occluding her vision.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García