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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
occlude .
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Examples
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What recalcitrance of personality occludes the possibility of love?
He Holds an Expired Visa and a Monday Grudge Bill Yarrow 2011
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[Locating] the public importance of private unions in marriage not only glosses the reality of marriage today, it occludes emerging ways of living and connecting to others that concretely embody commitment to 'a shared purpose that transcends the self, 'ways that may have little relation to one's sexual life - be it serially monogamous, chaste, or promiscuous.
Bella DePaulo: Challenges to the Privileging of Married People, from Across the Ideological Spectrum 2010
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[Locating] the public importance of private unions in marriage not only glosses the reality of marriage today, it occludes emerging ways of living and connecting to others that concretely embody commitment to 'a shared purpose that transcends the self, 'ways that may have little relation to one's sexual life - be it serially monogamous, chaste, or promiscuous.
Bella DePaulo: Challenges to the Privileging of Married People, from Across the Ideological Spectrum 2010
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Coronary heart disease occurs when a clot, arising from a ruptured and inflamed atherosclerotic plaque, occludes a blood vessel of the heart.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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[Locating] the public importance of private unions in marriage not only glosses the reality of marriage today, it occludes emerging ways of living and connecting to others that concretely embody commitment to 'a shared purpose that transcends the self, 'ways that may have little relation to one's sexual life - be it serially monogamous, chaste, or promiscuous.
Bella DePaulo: Challenges to the Privileging of Married People, from Across the Ideological Spectrum 2010
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Coronary heart disease occurs when a clot, arising from a ruptured and inflamed atherosclerotic plaque, occludes a blood vessel of the heart.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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"The problem with outrage is that it occludes vision," he wrote last spring, striking an ever-so-reasonable pose (and setting a fine example, too people who are angry rarely muster such elegant concepts as occlusion).
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Their fear/hatred of her occludes any decent analysis ... plus any conservative pundit would want her in national office so they could rip on her every day.
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Coronary heart disease occurs when a clot, arising from a ruptured and inflamed atherosclerotic plaque, occludes a blood vessel of the heart.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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This new disposition in fact solicits an inquiry into the work of juridical forms that Foucault's account of internalized discipline occludes.
Romantic Fear 2008
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