How to Use absent in a Sentence
- He made an absent reply to her question as he continued to watch the TV.
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White has been absent all week with an illness.
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Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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Why have the Arab states been so absent for all these years?
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ABC News,
7 Sep. 2025
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These are weak or absent in black bullhead.
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Ken Perrotte,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 2026
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That’s not to suggest that war is absent from this footage.
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Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
23 Oct. 2025
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How many from this field of 33 will be absent a year from now?
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Nathan Brown,
The Indianapolis Star,
26 May 2023
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But what about when your heart is pitch-black and your conscience is absent?
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Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2026
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Sure, certain datasets would be absent.
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Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
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Adam was not absent when Eve was deceived.
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Afdhel Aziz,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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The post even shouted out Moore, who was absent.
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Allison Degrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Jan. 2026
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The Savant was absent from the list.
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Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
15 Feb. 2026
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Putin looks passive, even absent.
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Joshua Yaffa,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
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But notably absent from all of this is tequila.
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Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
20 Sep. 2025
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Ball has been absent from court during hearings in this case.
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Julia Coin
may 12,
Charlotte Observer,
12 May 2026
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Castro was absent the day of the meeting.
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Michelle Marchante,
Miami Herald,
16 Mar. 2026
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Silence does not mean the issue is absent.
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Penny Abeywardena,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
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Asian singers were largely absent from the mainstream.
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Margaret Heidenry,
Vanity Fair,
24 Feb. 2026
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Stress exists, of course, but panic is absent.
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Rhett Power,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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When those skills are absent, everybody feels it.
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Michelle Sobel,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
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On a gas stovetop, the flame will be lower or absent on one side of the burner.
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Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
9 Feb. 2026
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Seven senators were absent or not in the room for the vote.
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Danielle J. Brown,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Apr. 2026
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Many of them have rallied absent any kind of uptick to their earnings outlooks.
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Josh Brown,sean Russo,
CNBC,
9 Feb. 2026
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And the support from one voice that could narrow this race is largely absent.
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Brittany Shepherd,
ABC News,
8 Oct. 2025
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The long ball has been absent from the offense and has been a problem for the pitching staff.
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Sahadev Sharma,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
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But the alarm that would attend plane crashes is notably absent.
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Judith Graham,
Fortune Well,
10 Feb. 2024
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Neon is absent from this year’s AFI Fest.
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J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
21 Oct. 2025
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Of the 23 students in Makan’s class, four were absent that day.
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Zohreh Saberi,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
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Where one element is absent, the whole project tends to falter.
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Michelle Orange,
The New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2023
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When training programs are absent, so too is the long-term workforce.
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Jocelyn Mitchell-Williams,
STAT,
19 June 2026
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Elmo was absent from that segment.
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Mark Puleo,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
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Art…had always been the thing that kept me from absenting myself from my own life entirely.
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Literary Hub,
21 Apr. 2026
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But absent a clear indication that beef inflation has peaked, this isn't the place to put new money to work.
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Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
16 Feb. 2026
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But for now CoreWeave is miles away from being profitable and is bleeding cash, absent its ability to issue debt.
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Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
8 Nov. 2025
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Syntax humming along, semantics absent.
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Shai Tubali,
Big Think,
5 Aug. 2025
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But absent any concerning signs that the labor market is falling a cliff, the Fed will also likely turn to inflation data for the cue on when to lower rates again.
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Bryan Mena,
CNN Money,
28 Jan. 2026
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But, absent any changes, Flores will remain in the Twin Cities to work with a defense that has been a formidable group in the league since taking over.
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Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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Rather, the justices ruled that absent an express instruction from a court or Congress, the legislature can’t take race into account in drawing district lines.
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Stephen L. Carter,
Twin Cities,
8 May 2026
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Zaccarelli wrote that Northlight thinks more volatility is possible in the coming weeks, but absent some kind of real blow to the economy, the market should stage a rebound later this year.
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Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
10 Oct. 2025
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Both the prosecutors and Weinstein’s lawyers had absented themselves from the courtroom, on the theory that the jury would be less likely to wonder why Weinstein wasn’t there.
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Jennifer Peltz,
Chicago Tribune,
13 May 2026
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That indicated everything about how the front office felt, but absent the solution of throwing more money at a free agent, Dombrowski’s group did not unearth any creative alternatives.
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Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2026
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Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, doesn't expect gas prices to drop below $3 this year absent a major economic shock, such as a recession.
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Mary Cunningham,
CBS News,
22 Apr. 2026
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And absent a provision that Iran’s proxies drop their attacks on Israel, the likelihood remains that the Jewish state will be forced to continue to defend itself, which will stress any peace agreement.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal,
Twin Cities,
18 June 2026
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In our conversation, Beattie didn’t buy my suggestion that the US government is absenting itself from making much of a case at all in the large-scale global tug-of-war with China.
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Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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In response, Democrats in Congress have largely unified in opposition to new funding for immigration enforcement agencies absent major reforms.
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Mathew Miranda,
Sacbee.com,
11 May 2026
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External coercion absent a credible internal political project does not deliver freedom.
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Sanam Vakil,
Time,
8 Jan. 2026
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But absent an oil-rich ally, like Russia or Venezuela, and faced with an implacable enemy, Cuban officials may have no choice but to bring Cuba back into the orbit of American power, at least for now.
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Joseph J. Gonzalez,
The Conversation,
23 Mar. 2026
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More Spanish-speaking students absent Approximately 55% of students who speak Spanish at home were absent from school last Friday, according to district data.
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Imani Cruzen,
Twin Cities,
21 Jan. 2026
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Options laid out in an Interior Department study of new operating rules absent a seven-state solution envision Lower Basin cuts up to twice what the Southwestern states have suggested.
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Brandon Loomis,
AZCentral.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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But absent the litigation commenced by progressives, there wouldn’t have been an opportunity for Republicans to bootstrap a legislative effort in the Texas statehouse to rewrite the map in a way to increase the Republican advantage.
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Jon Coupal,
Oc Register,
4 Aug. 2025
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By demanding clarity and presence, the clear and present danger test intentionally protected political speech — even speech calling for the violent overthrow of the federal government — absent the immediacy and probability of the speech causing that result.
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Noah Feldman,
Twin Cities,
24 Sep. 2025
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In Utah, a state judge rejected a GOP redistricting plan, paving the way for a new map with a solidly Democratic seat in Salt Lake City, absent any successful challenges from Republicans in the state.
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Benjamin Siegel,
ABC News,
30 Nov. 2025
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That was rejected by a federal judge, as was the city’s argument that McNamara was entitled to qualified immunity — a legal doctrine that protects government officials from litigation over their work actions absent a clear constitutional violation.
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Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
13 Jan. 2026
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