absent

Example Sentences

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While the federal indictment unsealed against Maduro after his seizure named several other senior officials in his government, Rodríguez’s name was notably absent.

From Los Angeles Times

But direct criticism of the US has been notably absent.

From BBC

Hundreds of people have taken jobs as caretakers for the homes of absent migrants.

From The Wall Street Journal

"It's absent in all of our previous Hubble images, which means that we just witnessed a violent collision between two massive objects and a huge debris cloud unlike anything in our own solar system today."

From Science Daily

The Reds were toothless in attack without the absent Mohamed Salah and Alexander Isak and were only saved from defeat late on by a tight offside call.

From Barron's