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

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

These colloid substances occlude the minute excretory ducts in liver, spleen, kidneys and other organs, interfering with their normal functions and causing the retention of morbid matter in the system.

From Nature Cure by Lindlahr, Henry