absent
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In “Sisters in Yellow,” translated by Laurel Taylor and Hitomi Yoshio, mothers are largely absent.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Software stocks have been notably absent from the market’s early spring rally, which has taken the S&P 500 back to the all-time highs it reached in late January.
From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, and daughters Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie are absent, after attending last year.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
The pastor said many congregants were absent because they had traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend a March 29 rally of Iranian diaspora in support of the war.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026
The only person I seemed to have anything in common with was the absent Rudolf Brodermann Elmenhurst, the third, who also had an odd name and who was out of it because he wasn't there.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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