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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

“I was living in an occluded hallucination,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2024

Some machine-learning approaches employ generative AI models that try to guess what lies in the occluded regions, but these models can hallucinate objects that aren't really there.

From Science Daily • Jun. 18, 2024

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