absent

Example Sentences

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Many major poets are absent—Poe, Dickinson, Melville, Eliot and Pound, for starters—because they never appeared in the pages of the Atlantic.

From The Wall Street Journal

With local media absent, agencies have quietly approved settlements in closed session, with no watchdog to suss out the underlying facts.

From Los Angeles Times

With the storm weathered, Stokes absent from the attack and Will Jacks unable to hold an end, Head cashed in.

From BBC

Far from an indignity, I thought it lent a certain gravitas otherwise absent from my banal demeanor.

From The Wall Street Journal

Even when a particular engagement is a disaster, the action ultimately resolves with a moral clarity almost entirely absent from the messiness of my harried world.

From The Wall Street Journal