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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
