truant
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In June 1530 Hans Holbein the Younger was rounded up for being a truant from the Reformed Church and its newfangled Eucharist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
He was a serial truant and left school at 15 without learning to read or write.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2025
As one might have predicted, the trio of 14-year-old supposedly truant adolescents quickly overwhelmed the comic.
From Salon • Jun. 1, 2025
And man, that idea, that image of 22 public integrity lawyers locked in a room like truant children until they knuckle under, and somebody is going to file it.
From Slate • Feb. 14, 2025
Back in the main office, a secretary ran the attendance sheets through a machine and a recorded call went out to the parents’ home phone, alerting them about their truant children.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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