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occult

[uh-kuhlt, ok-uhlt] / əˈkʌlt, ˈɒk ʌlt /


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Watching women fight off the arms of the occult has a clock on it.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

"You have an entire landscape of uncertainty and vulnerability and you have this 1,000-year-old tapestry of spells and medicines and occult knowledge that just has seeped into the Burmese consciousness."

From Barron's • Dec. 21, 2025

The love of ambiguity can feel somewhat coy—Ms. Tokarczuk gestures toward the existence of occult mysteries without deigning to fully portray them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

As it turns out, Gladys, avid in the occult, is keeping those kids in a trance to drain them of their energy and stay alive.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

For a few precarious seconds, the chaplain tingled with a weird, occult sensation of having experienced the identical situation before in some prior time or existence.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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