absence

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Ueda’s Absence: Another curveball for already-jittery markets came when the BOJ said Ueda had been hospitalized and would miss next week’s meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

"Absence of representation from the community has meant that rights ensured to us by the constitution have not translated to laws. We also have to go to address that," he said.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

As I wrote in my 2023 book, “The Long Field – Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir,” the very name “Wales” is a Saxon word meaning “Home of the Foreigners.”

From Salon • May 27, 2024

Absence did not make the heart grow fonder for the 75th Prime Time Emmy Awards.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2024

The King lets her into a Share of Affairs, and leaves the Regency of the Kingdom to her in his Absence.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von