absence

Example Sentences

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The deceleration comes as payroll growth is also falling, and in the absence of meaningful gains in hours worked.

From Barron's

"Mum was the person who held our family together and her absence is felt every single day. Nothing feels the same without her."

From BBC

His absence didn’t slow down the Jazz in the early going against a Lakers defense that was not engaged.

From Los Angeles Times

Every time I go back to visit, it seems that five new franchises have appeared in my absence.

From Salon

In the absence of a real-world pandemic, the researchers instead modelled a range of plausible transmission speeds.

From BBC