absent

Both had tough upbringings marked by an absent father, intermittently absent mother and reliable grandparents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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

Maybe someday I’d have the opportunity to give those letters to my grandchildren when they were old enough to understand why they had an absent grandfather.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

In May, Baptiste sent the group of athletes he coached a short message saying he would be absent from training "for a while".

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

On his door he tacked the same sign he had posted there before, stating that he would be absent for several days on business.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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

Reason: Under the city charter a mayor who absents himself for more than 30 days loses his office.

From Time Magazine Archive

In May, when the country is dry, each basha or kaid is ordered to collect troops in his own district: then is Tetuan deserted, and every boy and young man absents himself.

From In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory

“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

But should Duncan, as Steinbach suggested, have chosen to turn down the Federalist Society’s invitation and voluntarily absented himself from Stanford’s campus?

From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 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

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

"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