absent

“We have to deal with them, and absent the ordinance, it would be challenging for us.”

When I came round I felt extremely lucky to be alive - but the euphoria I had experienced after brain surgery was absent.

Sir Keir noted that Putin had been absent from the G20 for the third year running, adding he was “the author of his own exile”.

Aston Villa defender Lucy Parker is also absent for "several weeks" because of an ankle injury she picked up earlier this month.

At my youngest child’s daycare, in Munich, Germany, parents are asked to fill in a chart at least a week in advance noting any specific days the child will be absent, like for scheduled travel.