occult

Its beginnings came not from the world of the occult but that of upper-class entertainment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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

Witches, demons and Satanism — anything occult — is white-hot lately.

From Salon ● Apr. 1, 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

She seemed an occult figure, more spirit than human.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The hat occults its background, and thus reconstructs itself.

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

To their surprise, the light was not instantly shut off, as when the moon occults a star, but there was evident refraction.

From A journey in other worlds A romance of the future by Astor, John Jacob

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 Warren, Henry White

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

The explosions from them merged in a confusion of the white glare—and a cloud of black light-mist as the brigands out on the rocks used their occulting darkness bombs.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 by Bates, Harry

Have you ever heard of an occulting light?”

From The Tale of Timber Town by Grace, Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus)

Although in actual and deliberate transit on rollers across the backyard and still occulting a part of the view, it remained, after the reckless fashion of the period, inhabited.

From The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales by Harte, Bret

They ought not all to be occulting lights.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard