sabbatical year

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He said at the time that he was taking a sabbatical year and added he could be open to coaching a national team after his year off.

From Washington Times • Aug. 18, 2023

In 1970, when the family left for a sabbatical year in Trujillo, Peru, the Kochs made sure to rent their home to a Black family, apparently the first in the neighborhood.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2023

The campaign also coincided with the Jewish sabbatical year known as “shmita” or the year of release.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

During the pandemic sabbatical year, which offered plenty of time for reflection, Chen and Xi realized that fostering a classical-music community meant building not only a listening/ticket-buying base but a fellowship of participants.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2021

The sabbatical year is peculiar to the Priestly Code, or, to speak more correctly, to that collection of laws incorporated and edited by it, which lies at the basis of Leviticus xvii.-xxvi.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius