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sabbatical

[suh-bat-i-kuhl] / səˈbæt ɪ kəl /


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The way she sees it, she’s earned her sabbatical from domestic servitude.

From Salon

It is a bitterly disappointing result for Ireland head coach Andy Farrell on his return from his British and Irish Lions sabbatical.

From BBC

Perhaps journalism schools could make such meanderings mandatory or media companies could require a traveling sabbatical.

From The Wall Street Journal

After more than a decade at Oracle, Benioff was on sabbatical in Hawaii where, as he has told it, he was swimming with dolphins when he had the idea for a company that would give businesses software tools to manage customer relationships.

From The Wall Street Journal

The author writes of a sabbatical from Columbia in 2004, spent in Kampala.

From The Wall Street Journal