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  • One day after Brad picked up Cassie from school he came home uneasy about the occult symbols that seemed to decorate everything her friends were making in art class.†  (source)
  • The keening language, so precise yet so suggestive; blood tests for "occult" presences.†  (source)
  • The small ghostly moon above the bell gables was so tiny it looked like the moon of a different planet, hazed and occult, spooky clouds lit with just the barest tinge of blue and brown.†  (source)
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  • The pyramid is an occult symbol representing a convergence upward, toward the ultimate source of Illumination.†  (source)
  • In another moment the higher of the villas that had clambered up the hill from Burdock had occulted the running figure.†  (source)
  • Unseen and occultly, the gods still gripped with their power and would not let her go.†  (source)
  • With its many occultish-looking folds, it also served as the repository for the paraphernalia of a very heavy cigarette smoker and an amateur handyman; two oversized pockets had been added at the hips, and they usually contained two or three packs of cigarettes, several match folders, a screwdriver, a claw-end hammer, a Boy Scout knife that had once belonged to one of her sons, and an enamel faucet handle or two, plus an assortment of screws, nails, hinges, and ball-bearing casters—all of which tended to make Mrs. Glass chink faintly as she moved about in her large apartment.†  (source)
    occultish = having the characteristics of the magical or supernatural world
    standard suffix: Adding the suffix "-ish" to occult means having the characteristics of the occult. This is the same pattern you see in words like childish and foolish.
  • What public advertisement would divulge the occultation of the departed?†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • Days passed and she asked no questions, though now she was deep into books of the occult, of witches and witchcraft, and of vampires.†  (source)
  • First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage.†  (source)
  • —People do not know how dangerous lovesongs can be, the auric egg of Russell warned occultly.†  (source)
  • His wisdom is not the wisdom of an old man, but rather a knowledge of how to do things, especially occult things.†  (source)
  • He did not share Francisco's taste for the occult.†  (source)
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