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They combined images and seemingly AI-generated speech about urban legends, occult phenomena and conspiracy theories.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

An independent bookshop which specialises in horror, fantasy, folklore and the occult is trying to raise £20,000 to save it from closing.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Almost all exorcists, at the urging of the Vatican, keep their identities secret, their role in battling the occult known only to the other priests in their diocese.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026

For those, however, who take their painting with a dash of the occult, the tempera panels of Bu Shi at Sarahcrown will delight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

“I checked the occult bookstores, the spooky carnivals, the abandoned cemeteries, and all the obscure and little-trafficked corners of the city. Nothing!”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

When the earth's airless moon occults a star, the star winks out instantaneously.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Jupiter occults a bright star, astronomers will learn a lot about its atmosphere, which is probably thousands of miles deep and boiling with enormous storms.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sun, of course, occults planets and stars in exactly the same manner as the moon does, but we cannot see these occultations on account of the blaze of sunlight.

From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage

We note the stars it occults, or passes by, and leaves behind as it broadens its disk, till it rises full-orbed in the east when the sun sinks in the west.

From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Henry White Warren

The hat occults its background, and thus reconstructs itself.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 by Various

The movie’s details and themes remain theoretical, a blurred thesis about crime and punishment, about incarceration and isolation, about the occulted oppressions and subjections on which society depends.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 10, 2019

Stern and his colleagues chased 2014 MU69 on land and through the air last summer as it occulted, or passed in front of, three background stars.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 28, 2017

Extended Data Fig. 2The occulted star spectrum and model.

From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014

Astronomers discovered the atmosphere in 1988, when Pluto occulted another star.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 30, 2013

And though the solution to this mystery was, to my young mind, occulted, yet did 1 know where it lay: behind the forbidden door.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

This occurs when its orbit passes on the line of sight between the Earth and the star, partially occulting the star -- causing a decrease in its brightness that can be observed and quantified.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 11, 2024

They ought not all to be occulting lights.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

By hiding the glare of the planet behind an occulting bar, some of Saturn's smallest moons were seen by Kitchener with a two and seven-tenths aperture and by Capron with a two and three-fourths one.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 by Various

The variable in the Head of Medusa is the exemplar of a class including 26 recognised members, all of which doubtless represent occulting combinations of stars.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

In 1878 gas buoys, with fixed and occulting lights of 10-candle power, were introduced.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various