play truant
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The children's commissioner said some children play truant while others experience anxiety or have educational needs so find it easier at home.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2023
I hadn’t had occasion to play truant in close to a decade, and ditching class elicited a familiar thrill.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2018
A lyrical retelling of the Cain-and-Abel story in which four Nigerian brothers play truant from school, go fishing and meet a soothsayer who predicts that one brother will kill another.
From Economist ● Dec. 3, 2015
There's now a generation raised on the transgressive menace of his imagination, a world that invites the reader to trespass on the dark side of human experience, and play truant from normality.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 31, 2014
Sometimes, as in Mrs. Ventris's case, fairy-wives play truant for a night or for a season.
From Lore of Proserpine by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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