absent
Example Sentences
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Far from an indignity, I thought it lent a certain gravitas otherwise absent from my banal demeanor.
Even when a particular engagement is a disaster, the action ultimately resolves with a moral clarity almost entirely absent from the messiness of my harried world.
But for a while Wednesday, that vigor was conspicuously absent against Texas San Antonio, a team that lost four of its last five.
From Los Angeles Times
Edwards also quotes from the journalist Edward Chancellor who remarks that the “irrational exuberance that normally accompanies a mania is absent” in gold.
From MarketWatch
“We do risk — absent self-funded resources — that many Gen X-ers are at risk of outliving their savings and seeing even more elder poverty.”
From MarketWatch
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