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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

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

Repair of a Vessel ligated in its Continuity.—When a ligature is applied to an artery it should be pulled sufficiently tight to occlude the lumen without causing rupture of its coats.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson

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 pressure of the effused blood occludes the veins and leads to congestion and œdema of the limb beyond.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson

“I didn’t want my vision for the novel to be occluded by anything.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026

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

When one eye of the mouse is occluded for several days, the visual cortex starts to respond less effectively to the closed eye and better to the open eye.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 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

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

It is when working out takes over your life, occluding all else – work, family, friends – that you have a problem.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2019

“Right inferior mediastinal mass encasing and occluding the right inferior pulmonary vein” became “I have something that looks like a tumor in the middle of my chest.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2017

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