How to Use occlusion in a Sentence

occlusion

noun
  • For instance, cameras can be blinded by glare, fog, and lens occlusion.
    — David Risher, Fortune, 22 June 2026
  • The occlusion was at first subtle and indeed novel, the sort of anomaly that breathes new life into an old warhorse.
    — Andrew Kahn, Slate Magazine, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Should a patient begin to show any red-flag symptoms of vascular occlusion.
    — Kaitlin Clark, Allure, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Suffice it to say that occlusion happens when a cold front overtakes a warm front as a cyclonic system is forming.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2016
  • One of the worst-case scenarios is a vascular occlusion, which occurs if filler has caused the blood flow through an important artery to stop.
    — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Her right eye looked normal, but doctors saw a transient central retinal artery occlusion — a vessel blockage — in her left eye.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The times that stents and bypasses are going to prevent death is when patients have unstable lesions that are at risk of occlusion.
    — Scientific American, 1 June 2020
  • Similarly, there were some questions about how the sensor system handles dirt or occlusion.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Something about the early occlusion kept that eye and its central neural pathways from hooking up properly.
    — Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
  • An occlusion occurs when cold air overtakes warm air near the center of a low-pressure system, pinching a region of warm air above the earth’s surface.
    — Dennis Mersereau, Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2020
  • As the wind roared and cows ran for their lives, the meteorologist in him studied the storm’s structure, admiring the occlusion process.
    — David Gelles, New York Times, 19 July 2024
  • But their work often illustrates and compounds the suppression or occlusion of this history.
    — Marilynne Robinson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • To solve for challenges like occlusion, Meta built an AI model that’s used to predict the position of your whole body.
    — Chris Welch, The Verge, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The silicone promotes occlusion, drawing moisture to the skin’s surface for a smoother appearance.
    — Katie Chang, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • It can be flown manually but hosts a suite of autonomous features for tracking and stalking targets, even through occlusions.
    — New Atlas, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Using plastic wrap over a cream or other topical treatment on an area of skin is a form of occlusion therapy (the very method that makes sheet masks so effective).
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Developers will also be able to build virtual objects into apps that can be placed in the real world, with advanced depth-mapping and occlusion.
    — Lauren Goode, Wired, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Anything that causes perpetual sweat gland blockage (occlusion) can cause recurrent heat rash.
    — Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 1 July 2024
  • Retinal vein occlusion is linked to diabetes, high blood pressure, fatty buildup in the arteries and eye disorders like glaucoma.
    — Zachary Snowdon Smith, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • First, Matt Borgschulte — who scraped by as a volunteer college assistant on a staff that helped pioneer occlusion training.
    — Nathan Ruiz, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Additionally, pop-in issues become much more apparent for both textures and shadows, and ambient occlusion is axed across the board.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Still, the occlusion of that primordial cosmic view, which for thousands of generations has opened minds to the vast potential and fleeting fragility of life, comes with a real cost.
    — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Bolsonaro has had strong episodes of abdominal pain, including occlusion, since he was stabbed during a campaign event in 2018.
    — Guy Davies, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2023
  • One rare but serious risk of getting filler is vascular occlusion, which happens when a provider accidentally injects the filler into a blood vessel.
    — Kaitlin Clark, Allure, 9 Feb. 2022
  • That paradox gets to the nub of this administration’s fraught relationship with ventilation and occlusion.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 24 July 2017
  • Robots operate in a world defined by geometry, scale, occlusion and physical constraints.
    — Alexandre De Vigan, Forbes.com, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Though fillers are typically considered safe when injected by a qualified provider, getting treated in these areas can come with a higher risk of vascular occlusion.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Flip back and forth to see the subtle touches of higher texture resolution and improved ambient occlusion compared to the original console version.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Dragon leverages the ability of iPhones to capture video in ultrahigh frame rates, mitigating tricky instances of occlusion that can obscure the precise kick point of the ball.
    — Ben Dowsett, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The same cannot be said for the ho-hum CGI effects applied to droids, lizards, and speeder bikes, which all play out with a weird lack of ambient occlusion or shadow adjustment.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 30 Oct. 2020

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