absent
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"However, the effect occurs later, and the stimulating effect is often absent," the institute advised.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
But, until now, this functionality has been mostly absent from consumer apps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
State Controller Malia Cohen sponsored Assembly Bill 1447, which seeks to define the process for California to take custody of securities when the owner is deemed absent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Yet more than half of that rock record appears to be absent.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
She found much evidence of baboons, although they were absent at the moment.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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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
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I trust, therefore, that you will not be displeased with your Haydn, who, often as his Prince absents himself from Estoras, never can obtain leave, even for four-and-twenty hours, to go to Vienna.
From Haydn by J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert) Hadden
“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
"Although she did not explain to the defendant why she had done this, it must have been obvious to him that she had absented herself because of her anxiety."
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2020
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 boss continued his watchfulness for a few days, then began to observe me from across the street; finally he absented himself for long intervals.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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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
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