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These imperfections, known as defects, can occur when a carbon atom is absent from its normal position, when another element replaces a carbon atom, or when both changes occur together.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026

Yet her character is given an essential arc that I’m hesitant to spoil, and that the actress serves with heartbreaking potency, eventually performing a breakdown that feels rattlingly absent of actorly affect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

And on an early wintry wind, that absent element blew into town on Monday with the premiere of Johnny Depp’s big Hollywood return, as the 183-year-old miser Ebenezer Scrooge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi are also absent from the most recent list.

From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026

He was kind of flattered that she’d noticed he was absent.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

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

Ref. to the committee of dangers, concerning choosing a Moderator, and censure of absents from the Assembly, Sess.

From The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

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

He absented himself from the traditional marketing of his art, but supported himself in part by selling a trove of Constantin Brancusi sculptures he had acquired.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2019

For years, the chemist harbored a bitter resentment of Lawrence, who had plainly dumped the task of firing him in Cooksey’s lap and absented himself from the Rad Lab while the deed was done.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

Finding out that it wasn’t, that in fact the last entries were dated, she kept count of the number of days I was absenting myself from school.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane