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After last week's nationwide demonstrations, the government promised some 3,000 substitute teachers would be deployed in the coming days to replace absent staff at the 114 worst-affected high schools.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Their voices are notably, strangely absent from your retelling of this family saga.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

He also said he would launch a plan next week to speed up the replacement of absent teachers and begin a broader review of school schedules.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Brydon Carse, who is under an investigation from the Cricket Regulator following an incident outside a nightclub in Derby in August, remains absent.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

“If you’re asking that, then, well, yes. I am absent from a class. But it doesn’t matter. Perhaps I can get my professor to credit today as a field trip.”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

In the mode of Katherine Boo and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Flock absents herself from the narrative, allowing us to enter the lives of her subjects and witness moments of almost unbearable intimacy.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2018

I don’t think there is much of a risk of default in the very near term but clearly if it absents official financing then it becomes more of a concern.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 4, 2016

Sinclair, whose prose is famously so eloquent, is here smilingly reticent, and somewhat disconcertingly absents himself before the trip is quite finished – to catch a plane.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2012

Eddie, her husband, decides that after all Patricia likes the surgeon best; to facilitate her leaving him, he absents himself from home.

From Time Magazine Archive

And if the said official absents himself in any other manner he shall lose his position.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

Rosales absented herself from the archive, letting the images do the talking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

“The evidence demonstrates that he did not control Oracle, and that he absented himself from the acquisition of NetSuite,” the judge wrote.

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023

Interestingly, one of the other very senior Likud figures, Yuli Edelstein, who had been chair of the Knesset—which is a position equivalent to speaker of the House—for many years, had absented himself.

From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2023

But should Duncan, as Steinbach suggested, have chosen to turn down the Federalist Society’s invitation and voluntarily absented himself from Stanford’s campus?

From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2023

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

Ryan Bowen, representing Membury, admitted his client had "not added any strength to the mitigation against him by absenting himself from proceedings".

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

He focused on personal priorities like criminal justice reform, and he jousted with rivals in a factionalized West Wing while absenting himself at key moments, to the frustration of colleagues.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2022

If you can convince him, then he will come to realize that your absenting yourself truly is the easiest solution.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2022

Rather, when Fleabag is talking to the audience, she is noticeably absenting herself from her real life.

From Slate ● May 16, 2019

No intercourse with Harriet possible but by note; no church for her on Sunday any more than on Christmas Day; and no need to find excuses for Mr. Elton’s absenting himself.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen