truant
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In June 1530 Hans Holbein the Younger was rounded up for being a truant from the Reformed Church and its newfangled Eucharist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
As one might have predicted, the trio of 14-year-old supposedly truant adolescents quickly overwhelmed the comic.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2025
And man, that idea, that image of 22 public integrity lawyers locked in a room like truant children until they knuckle under, and somebody is going to file it.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2025
It wasn’t a truant officer at his door, though — no one had ever come knocking about that.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2023
They stowed most of their gear in a collapsed building far from the center, a crumbling place that even truant uglies would probably avoid, packing only water purifiers, a flashlight, and a few food packets.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
When students tried to run away — an eight-mile flight up that winding road — the police in the village of Hancock knew to be on the lookout for truants and simply brought them back.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2022
There is no official data on absence due to school anxiety and many affected pupils are labelled truants but support groups are being flooded with calls.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2021
Only juvenile truants and curfew violators are not handcuffed unless they become violent, according to police rules.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2019
But there’s got to be a better way than turning students who are trying to learn into truants, and a teacher who is trying to teach into an outlaw.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2018
“Are you aware that the school district has special police who go out searching for truants? They’re very good at their jobs, 1 assure you.”
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
Elwyn Edwards was a schoolboy who lived nearby and truanted so that he could join the protest.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2023
Only one of them was in school and she truanted most days.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2012
His outward hopes were blasted, and he returned with concentrated ardour to woo the muse, from whom he had so long truanted.
From Milton by Mark Pattison
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