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sabbatical

noun as in leave

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Sam and Yash have been housesitting for one of their professors while he is on sabbatical overseas.

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Pulisic had the courage to do what was right for himself last summer, just as Donovan did when he took his much-criticized sabbatical from soccer in 2013.

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In fact, it wasn’t until Cocker went off to college to study filmmaking at Central Saint Martins — taking a sabbatical from Pulp and then returning in 1991 — that the band was asked to play a concert in ’92 and gained some traction.

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“I should have said I’m going to take a sabbatical, because I had no idea what was going to happen in the future,” Townshend says.

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Mansell, Prost and Alonso all had breaks before their final blast in F1 - Mansell went to IndyCar for a couple of years, Prost had an enforced sabbatical, and Alonso took two years off to explore other categories.

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

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