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truant

noun as in absentee

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Example Sentences

For me, the issue is in the past she’s sent people to jail for petty offenses like sending single mothers to jail for their children being truant, minor marijuana charges, and so on.

From Slate

Who could forget the SS23 show, “For the Truant and the Fluent,” in which designer and L.A. resident Tommy Bogo created a classroom setting for his runway?

Q: How do you explain to your progressive supporters that as a district attorney, you championed legislation that allowed parents of chronically truant students to be prosecuted?

From Salon

Parents who allow their children to be chronically truant are hurting them and hurting us.

From Salon

In the episode “Alex,” where the two visit a truant student at home, “I see us making these conscious choices to take their relationship from hemming and hawing and not knowing where they are to almost mom-and-dad-like,” Williams says.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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