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- verb Present participle of
occlude .
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Examples
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Probably given we got there so fast, plus swallowing an aspirin during home as good as nipping multiform in a Emergency Room, no clot had shaped around a obstruction, which assumingly was caused by a plaque of cholesterol with a separate in it occluding a wall of a red blood vessel by prominent in to a lumen.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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Probably given we got there so fast, plus swallowing an aspirin during home as good as nipping multiform in a Emergency Room, no clot had shaped around a obstruction, which assumingly was caused by a plaque of cholesterol with a separate in it occluding a wall of a red blood vessel by prominent in to a lumen.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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The financial instrument industry is in the business of assessing risk, and developing new means of occluding that risk from others and bypassing regulations.
Matthew Yglesias » The Bitter Fruits of a Finance-Oriented Economy 2010
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To the right stood a huge iron gate, padlocked shut, occluding but not cutting off sight of the deteriorating graves of Red Army soldiers from the Second World War.
Sullen Months, Möbius Strips Josef K. Strosche 2011
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Unbeknown to Eastlake (and only revealed by the 1958 restoration), the picture had long since been supplied with a veil occluding Venus's sex, and a myrtle branch covering Cupid's bottom.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010
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The financial instrument industry is in the business of assessing risk, and developing new means of occluding that risk from others and bypassing regulations.
Matthew Yglesias » The Bitter Fruits of a Finance-Oriented Economy 2010
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Perhaps because of the occluding mist smudging the twilight hour between day and night, the evening seemed to have lasted for ever.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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He surged off his left foot, hit the board, occluding the dirty footprints, then rose up spinning like a flipped coin.
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Provided the signal beamed out above occluding furniture or objects, it was powerful enough to work in situations where a garage control would not have.
TOO MANY MURDERS Colleen McCullough 2009
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A teenaged boy, long hair occluding his face, skateboard in one hand, proffered an inhaler with the other.
Her Fearful Symmetry AUDREY NIFFENEGGER 2009
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