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Notably absent from the discussions is opposition favorite and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado, who lives in exile and was not invited.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

In other advanced fields, European companies are almost absent.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

Although flatworms may appear simple, their unusual biology could reveal immune strategies that are absent from humans and other vertebrates.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

Even with U.S. support, analysts said the yen could struggle again absent a shift by Japan’s central bank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

My friends in Cambridge had become a kind of family, and I felt a sense of belonging with them that, for many years, had been absent on Buck’s Peak.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

It was a good defence of baskets of game and periodical remittances of Norfolk turkeys, that "Presents endear absents."

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 352, January 17, 1829 by Various

“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

Stoicism is also a protocol of attentiveness, which makes it an attractive remedy for those who feel absented and estranged from themselves or the world.

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2021

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

Jimmy Fallon returned to his regular desk at NBC's Tonight Show, having absented himself a week to mourn his beloved mother Gloria.

From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2017

For years, the chemist harbored a bitter resentment of Lawrence, who had plainly dumped the task of firing him in Cooksey’s lap and absented himself from the Rad Lab while the deed was done.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

"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