M. H. Trytten
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Examples of absent in a Sentence
Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2024
Notably absent from the list is Chevy Chase, who has a long-standing, public feud with the show and McHale (among others).
—Dustin Nelson, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2024
More often, her takes were fierce, energetic and charged with a vitality conspicuously absent from the contemporary connectors.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
In the sweetest surprise of the show, Springsteen brought out his wife and longtime E Street Band member, Patti Scialfa, who has been mostly absent from this tour, to share vocals on two unexpected songs.
—Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2024
Even as Instagram-worthy wildflowers bloom across the state, the blazing orange flower has been conspicuously absent from some of its usual haunts — including the reserve in Lancaster and the city of Lake Elsinore.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
The key brain structure that allows mammals to form memories — the hippocampus — is absent in fish.
—Lily Carey, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
That his village school had only one teacher, who was absent whenever he was needed to help with the harvest, and that this teacher was also a wrestler, earning extra rupees from matches in nearby villages.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Among those notably absent were Kate Middleton, Prince William and their children — Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, 8, and Prince Louis, 5 — who did not attend following Kate's recent public announcement of her cancer diagnosis.
—Erin Hill, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2024
Christopher Helman, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
But absent a weakening labor market, price growth may be stuck above the 2% target, given wage and home price increases that remain elevated, the Citi analysts said.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2024
Ultimately, there is only so much Samsung can do absent its own OS.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
But absent a cessation of hostilities, the war could convulse the region, bringing in anti-Israel factions based in Lebanon and Syria, and spawning an unprecedented flow of Palestinian refugees into Egypt.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
The big question here is whether Microsoft has control over OpenAI, absent an official acquisition.
—Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2023
And absent a war with Iran or a resurgence of ISIS, this trend will continue.
—Steven Simon and Adam Weinstein, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2023
His father then absented himself from the boy’s life, leaving him nothing upon his death a few years later, when Pratt was thirteen.
—Hazlitt, 6 Sep. 2023
Investors are demanding historically high yields for US Treasury notes that mature in July, which by some estimates is when the United States will default on its debt, absent any legislative action.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
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Word History
Adjective
Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin absent-, absens, present participle of abesse "to be away, be absent," from ab- ab- + -sens, present participle (attested only with prefixes) of esse "to be" — more at is entry 1
Verb
Middle English absenten, borrowed from Anglo-French absenter, borrowed from Late Latin absentāre, verbal derivative of Latin absent-, absens absent entry 1
Preposition
derivative of absent entry 1
Adjective
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
15th century, in the meaning defined above
Preposition
1944, in the meaning defined above
Phrases Containing absent
Dictionary Entries Near absent
Cite this Entry
“Absent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/absent. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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