absence
Example Sentences
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Former world indoor champion Josh Kerr was given a medical exemption after withdrawing from the men's 3,000m because of a back injury, Tom Keen stepping up in his absence to win the event.
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Members of her church noticed her absence the following day and notified her family.
From BBC
"What was unusual was the near absence of engagement during Hasina's tenure. The pendulum had swung too far in one direction; now it risks swinging too far in the other."
From BBC
No one warned me about how disorienting that absence would be.
His absence only encouraged a willing Scotland to spin wide.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
