as in missing
not present at a mandatory time and place
The soldier was AWOL for more than a week. "Where's Ben?" "I'm not sure—he's been AWOL all day."
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Adjective
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On Thursday, a small airplane carrying 10 people in Alaska went missing and was found crashed amid sea ice on Friday with all presumed dead.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA TODAY,
10 Feb. 2025 -
The Athena Alert is intended to bridge the gap between the time a child goes missing and the time a statewide Amber Alert is issued.—
Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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So many firsts, gone, charred to ash, just remnants of an area that once represented Black prosperity and joy.—
Maya Richard-Craven,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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The original pioneers were mostly busy making non-hyperpop or gone: SOPHIE tragically died in 2021; 100 gecs spent years toiling to make their zany stadium-rock second album.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
3 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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The bill also addresses children and teens who are habitually truant.—
Jessica Babb,
Baltimore Sun,
29 Jan. 2025
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But if a cadre of concerned neighborhood volunteers can be cobbled together with parents who have truant kids of their own, perhaps efforts to reach out to families who have given up minding their kids may actually have a chance of working.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
1 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Her dad works in the industry, and is largely absent from her life because of it.—
Kayti Burt,
TIME,
14 Feb. 2025
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The pitcher, the subject of offseason trade rumors and an odd man out in the Yankees’ rotation, has been absent from official on-field workouts in the two days since reporting.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
13 Feb. 2025
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The Spanish actress is the first out transgender woman to be nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars, however, Netflix has been distancing itself from her in the weeks since, reportedly refocusing its awards campaign.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
14 Feb. 2025
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In fact, a fair number of Judge Chang’s queries to Crichton’s team expressed out and out skepticism sometimes of their perspective focusing on plans for an ER reboot and what became The Pitt.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
30 Jan. 2025
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“AWOL.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/AWOL. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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