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Absent in sentence

556 examples of Absent in a sentence

While I was absent from Iran, the Islamic Revolution had descended on Iran and had entirely transformed the country from Persian to the Islamic culture.
If vultures depend on death for survival and if they scavenge humans, then how can vultures be absent from forensic textbooks and training manuals?
And you know your toughest kids are never absent.
Before the wolves turned up, they'd been absent for 70 years.
I mean, what we've found is actually health of employees is something that business should treasure, because that health allows those employees to be more productive and come to work and not be absent.
In most of these places, the government is completely absent, leaving inhabitants with no choice but to reappropriate found materials, and while these communities are highly disadvantaged, they do present examples of brilliant forms of ingenuity, and prove that indeed we have the ability to adapt to all manner of circumstances.
Not just is the digital now far from the present, but it's in direct competition with it, and this is because not just am I absent from it, but so are you.
Not just are we absent from it, but so is everyone else.
So, absent being able to anticipate the future, what we all do, as good parents, is try and prepare our kids for every possible kind of future, hoping that just one of our efforts will pay off.
And my father, who had been absent in most of my early childhood, was doing what other men were doing: fighting for the country.
My father, who had been absent in most of my early childhood, came back into my life.
And according to these new DSM guidelines, in most menstrual cycles in the last year, at least five of 11 possible symptoms must appear in the week before menstruation starts; the symptoms must improve once menstruation has begun; and the symptoms must be absent the week after menstruation has ended.
He became a casual white supremacist and, like so many around him, a drug-addled and absent father.
Slovene distinguishes between two children and three or more using a dual suffix absent in many other languages, while Russian's lack of definite articles might leave you wondering whether the children are eating some particular muffins, or just eat muffins in general.
EH: So you have a father who's absent, you have a mother for whom apparently nothing is good enough.
Absent a willingness to immediately put this new wealth to the service of all humanity, a few trillionaires could grace the covers of our business magazines while the rest of the world would be free to starve.
Or, absent crisis, we need to see that the hollowing out, the inequality, the challenges that are growing and growing in the United States, are themselves urgent enough to force our leaders to change, and that we have those voices.
But the phonetic approach is also absent today, because when, in the 18th century, we decided how we would standardize our writing, there was another approach which guided a good part of the decisions.
First, females are still noticeably absent on-screen in film.
I have been mining the world of art to help people across the professional spectrum to see the extraordinary in the everyday, to articulate what is absent and to be able to inspire creativity and innovation, no matter how small.
Euphoria filled the air as he became absent from his base, while she remained still, very present, half an hour after his removal.
And what we learned was that some of our students' experiences, such as an absent parent, chaotic home life, poverty and illness, create real trauma on developing brains.
Kevin Carroll came from extremely deprived circumstances: alcoholic mother, absent father, inner-city Philadelphia, black, had to take care of a younger brother.
Looking at our primate relatives, we can see that the palmaris longus is sometimes absent in those that spend more time on the land, but always present in those that spend more time in trees.
Absent, we missed her, grew haggard and limp.
Absent from this list, and absent from any discussions of happiness, are happiness in another's happiness.
And a big part of the work that is sort of absent in this context is text.
So, technology was sort of absent from everybody's thinking until 1952, which happened to be the year of my birth.
Absent desire, not going to happen.
People like these are invaluable ambassadors for design and yet they are roundly absent from architectural discourse.
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