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View definitions for not present

not present

adjective as in missing

adjective as in truant

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Details emerged on Wednesday of sexual assault allegations against Trump’s Secretary of Defense nominee, Pete Hegseth, that were reportedly not present in vetting reports by the transition team.

From Salon

It’s unclear why the worker did not present with more severe symptoms.

Leaders of most of the world's biggest polluters were not present in Baku, including Biden, France’s leader Emmanuel Macron and India’s Narendra Modi.

From BBC

“It’s not necessarily more effective. So much of lifting is about coordination, neuromuscular activity in your body and stabilization and that’s not present using machines the way it is with free weights.”

“That year was about a group of Black women being pushed out. The abject nature of Blackness is inherent in the way people were perceiving what it means for us to be present or not present in a conversation about what it means to get recognition. And the recognition that is offered to a certain group of people, the conversation isn’t afforded to them. We have to begin to question ourselves truly if we want a space to have any form of equity.”

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

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