Example Sentences

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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

In Bacon, its first creator, materialism still occludes within itself the germs of a many-sided development.

From Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels, Friedrich