absent

The Council voted 12-0 to put the measure on the ballot, with three council members absent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Knowing which planets are absent can be just as valuable as discovering new ones.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

UK guidelines from the British Society of Gastroenterology say ferritin below 15 micrograms per litre indicates absent iron stores, while below 30 generally indicates low iron stores.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

A stretch of London's iconic Oxford Street was made traffic-free "forever" starting Monday, as pedestrians took over the country's most famous shopping street, absent of the capital's red double-decker buses and black cabs.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

I ran, bleary-eyed and blind, searching the night for my absent sister and the boy with the missing eye, but I couldn’t find them.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

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

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

Yet even Rose notably absents himself from the stage as his sidemen widdle their way through their countless between-song solos.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2010

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

"The Chevalier Bigot does not lose his politeness, however long he absents himself!" said she, with a glance like a Parthian arrow well aimed to strike home.

From The Golden Dog by William Kirby

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

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

The U.N. secretary general seated himself between Mr. Putin and Mr. Obama at a lunch, but absented himself for some of the toasts.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2015

He turned and absented himself from the chamber, his body betraying signs of considerable inward turmoil of spirits in his irregularity of movement.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

"He is deliberately manipulating the court and voluntarily absenting himself."

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2025

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