occult

Example Sentences

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The museum sells occult essentials, cursed antiques and movie merchandise.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026

The shadowy and hazy reflections emanating from them, though merely photons, evoke the occult.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

In 2019, the wickedly fun horror-comedy “Ready or Not” made hide-and-seek into a terrifying encounter with the occult — and made its star, Samara Weaving, the scream queen du jour.

From Salon • Jan. 4, 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

Age and experience had sharpened Clara’s ability to divine the occult and to move objects from afar.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende