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# How to pronounce "blocking out" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/blɒkkɪngæʊt/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **blo·ckin·gout**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "blocking out" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "And then what did you look at? blocking out that 10 minutes just to have time for yourself, I think."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 35:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUtyMMLudPo&t=2105s)

### Example 2
> "kind of almost catatonic some days she had spent so much time in her life blocking out horrible things that she just had this wall and she just blocked out everything you know good things and bad things it was just the way she coped with anything"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 9:48](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf2poRCkPVg&t=588s)

### Example 3
> "blocking out the same uh it's blocking out closer stars and again for a space tornado yeah but this isn't what my star field look"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 17:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAe8OXpSBNk&t=1042s)

### Example 4
> "Blocking out the sun and said, would you hurry up."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:55](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqJfUXbgies&t=115s)

### Example 5
> "By blocking out options, I think that's a really clever way of using game mechanics to convey the feeling of what"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 12:21](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKugks4974g&t=741s)

### Example 6
> "You know, not everyone has those perceptual effects, but they'll have that opportunity. By blocking out the external distractions, the idea is one can focus the experience more internally about the nature of yourself, about these patterns in your life, about the big picture of what's going on in the world."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 10:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_sFWG5WFjo&t=604s)

### Example 7
> "actually have this half hour gap between two meetings so why don't i take advantage of that to go run five errands i can kind of batch those together but blocking out in advance this is what i want to do with the time available i mean i find that's much more effective now once you're doing this once you're in a discipline of time blocking it's much easier to actually see this is where i want for example to deep work and i can get a handle on the other"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 13:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3Umo_jd5AA&t=805s)

### Example 8
> "physics of that like what the optics are that require that shape i can tell you it turns out that if you block out a star imagine blocking out a star with a circle circularly or a square shaped screen you wouldn't actually be blocking it because the star acts like a wave the starlight can act like a wave and it would actually bend around the edges of the screen and so instead of blocking out the light you're expecting to see nothing you"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 62:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jA2ABHBc6Y&t=3767s)

### Example 9
> "is that the first time you you kind of recall that those early years where you think you might have just buried a set of emotions and not addressed them that that blocking out of it just to keep on keeping on yeah I think I I think some of it is my personality but I think some of it was circumstance kind of I I don't I don't want to cause people problems I want to always make sure everybody's okay"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 10:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfzFFQgG2zU&t=634s)

### Example 10
> "And that's got a lot of people who are less optimistic than me, considering some very extreme plan B's. Could blocking out the sun actually help reduce the temperature? China says it will try to protect its grain harvest from intense drought by using chemicals to generate rain."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:33](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-UXXPqHGvE&t=33s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [figure out](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/figure-out), [work out](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/work-out), [make sense of](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/make-sense-of), [find out](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/find-out), [sort out](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/sort-out), [clear up](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/clear-up), [point out](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/point-out), [bring up](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/bring-up)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "blocking out" correctly?
"blocking out" is pronounced `/blɒkkɪngæʊt/`. Syllable breakdown: **blo·ckin·gout**.

### What does "blocking out" mean in context?
Refer to real speech examples in the video clips above to observe how native speakers use "blocking out" in daily English.

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