Synonym: away, lacking, truant. Antonym: present. Similar words: sentiment, subsequent, subsequently, consent, sentence, at present, represent, essentially. Meaning: ['æbsənt] v. go away or leave. adj. 1. not in a specified place physically or mentally 2. lost in thought; showing preoccupation.
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121. Of course such features are never totally absent in experimental work.
122. Splenomegaly, ascites, and extrahepatic symptoms of chronic liver disease were notably absent.
123. If you're absent more than five times, you fail the course.
124. The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. Benjamin Franklin
125. There is also a growing sense of dismay that attempts to contain and control corporate crime are largely absent or ineffectual.
126. Mr Howe has no such reassurance, particularly with Gallacher absent for five games and no immediate sign of a return.
127. He was so dangerously persuasive - and it would be all too convenient to blame everything on the absent Miss Philimore.
128. Such a statement of principle is notably absent from the Government's proposals.
129. A consideration of the cultural context of such concept formations is largely absent from his work.
130. Jack Lemmon, his longtime amateur partner, will be absent after 23 consecutive unsuccessful attempts to make the pro-am cut.
131. Many invertebrates, such as crayfish, can not survive without a certain level of calcium, and are completely absent.
132. The bitterness of repeated daily confrontation with left-wing majorities has given them a steeliness entirely absent from the old-fashioned candidates.
133. This includes parents, students, and the incumbent workers themselves-whose voices are noticeably absent in shaping many school-to-work initiatives.
134. The inflammatory cells were absent in the colonic mucosa of Crohn's disease patients examined in remission.
135. Science subjects and laboratories were almost entirely absent, and applied science was the province of artisan workers, not gentlemen.
136. In soft-bodied insect larvae, where the appendages are reduced or absent, locomotion occurs through quite different physical mechanisms.
137. Strangely, nobody said anything, but the culprit has been notably absent from subsequent holidays.
138. The Adkinson children were absent from school about a dozen times last fall.
139. But Owens was absent because her father was admitted to the hospital.
140. Such geographic constraints were initially absent from the block grant program.
141. Dave Libbey, another top-flight ref, has been conspicuously absent since his return from an early season injury.
142. There will be anarchical aspects of organizations, but order is not completely absent.
143. I knew little of psychology but enough to be aware of the impact on the unformed ego of an absent father.
144. This authority also often gave details absent from others' booklets.
145. It can also influence learned and voluntary reactions to visual stimuli when the visual cortex is absent.
146. True, local business is not entirely absent but on the whole,[www.Sentencedict.com] foreign operators have been the first to benefit.
147. The Democratic leadership in Congress, which was noticeably absent at the signing ceremony, fought the measure.
148. Stories of substance, new and old alike, are often conspicuously absent.
149. But I had a friend in Radio 3: so thanks, ghostly and absent companion.
150. Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur. Stephen Hawking
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