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Recent Examples of absence In the absence of mature trees, bat houses are an option. Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025 Both diseases would have been deadly in the early 1800s in the absence of sanitary conditions and antibiotics. New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2025 Neither Roberts, nor the team, have provided additional details about the nature of Vesia's absence. Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025 Beyond break-ups, also when there’s a death of someone close, from that point on it’s as if life is a matter of surviving that absence, going on living despite that absence. John Hopewell, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for absence
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Noun
  • But the mob’s relative lack of visibility does not mean it’s gone away.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Barcelona used a mix of zonal and man-marking but struggled when teams exploited their comparalative lack of height and physicality by using players in motion.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • By deploying solvers on scalable cloud platforms, firms avoid the need for expensive local hardware, lowering barriers for CAE adoption among businesses.
    Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2025
  • For all its limitations, mediocrity is immeasurably superior to ceaseless ambition, the need always for superlative achievement.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Absence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/absence. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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