occulting

present participle of occult

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for occulting
Verb
  • Meanwhile, this past weekend, reports emerged that two American military cargo jets deported people to Africa on flights that appear to have had their transponders turned off, preventing tracking by obscuring their locations from public flight databases and other nearby aircraft.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Differential privacy introduces controlled noise or randomness to datasets, obscuring individual details while maintaining collective patterns.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Snelling is currently charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Snelling was charged with tampering with physical evidence, concealing the birth of an infant and abuse of a corpse.
    Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Johnson sat in the makeup chair for two hours undergoing a transformation process that resulted in the cauliflower ears, a specific browbone piece and other prosthetics, plus hiding his tattoos.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Keep scrolling to shop the best deals on plush bedding and area rugs hiding in Amazon’s home department.
    Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Luciano Valente pressed high onto McGinn, leaving midfield partner Hwang In-beom covering both No 10s.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • All kinds of high school sports events and the monster that was covering college recruiting.
    Nicole Young, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
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“Occulting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/occulting. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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