occlude
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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
That’s particularly the case for atrocity photos, since the universality of bodily suffering tends to occlude politics.
From The Guardian • Sep. 9, 2014
This is also a symptom of tuberculosis when the lymphatic glands lying between the lungs are so enlarged as to press upon and partly occlude the esophagus.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
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