I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mark sb present/absent (= write on an official list that someone is there or not there, especially in school )
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Any student who is more than 20 minutes late for class will be marked absent.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
completely
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It is completely absent in the rat.
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Ferric iron in the form of magnetite is abundant, and metal is completely absent .
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Many invertebrates, such as crayfish, can not survive without a certain level of calcium, and are completely absent .
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This vulnerability is completely absent from the modern media image of the imam.
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Memories of the synagogue are also few, and its uplifting worship ceremonial almost completely absent .
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There will be anarchical aspects of organizations, but order is not completely absent .
conspicuously
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Although the Mandate was created by agreement, treaty arguments are conspicuously absent from the Court's reasoning in these two cases.
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Rison was conspicuously absent from much of the Jaguars' game plan.
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Members of the Catholic church were conspicuously absent .
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Dave Libbey, another top-flight ref, has been conspicuously absent since his return from an early season injury.
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But it is conspicuously absent so far.
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Morality and accountability are conspicuously absent .
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Yet one grouping was conspicuously absent from these campaigns.
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Feminist arguments in favour of day nurseries were also conspicuously absent .
entirely
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The evidence for the next higher stage is not entirely absent but, in this case, it is indirect.
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Almost entirely absent from many existing school-to-work efforts are the voices of students and parents.
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True, local business is not entirely absent but on the whole, foreign operators have been the first to benefit.
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Such feminist strengths and weaknesses are entirely absent from Bruce Arnold's book on Mainie Jellett.
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Not all the notions concerning sacrifice are entirely absent from our lives.
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Evidence for that seems remarkably thin, though not entirely absent .
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Science subjects and laboratories were almost entirely absent , and applied science was the province of artisan workers, not gentlemen.
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The bitterness of repeated daily confrontation with left-wing majorities has given them a steeliness entirely absent from the old-fashioned candidates.
largely
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This is largely absent in today's secular society.
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Traffic is horrendous, walking dangerous and any semblance of natural beauty largely absent .
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In this whole scandal one figure is largely absent: St Martin.
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But if direct partisan considerations are largely absent from the process, wider concerns of suitability are not.
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A consideration of the cultural context of such concept formations is largely absent from his work.
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Although collectors have been the traditional mainstays of this market, they had been largely absent for several seasons.
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But Shell argues that although it has an obligation to the communities, so has the government, which is largely absent .
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There is also a growing sense of dismay that attempts to contain and control corporate crime are largely absent or ineffectual.
notably
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Splenomegaly, ascites, and extrahepatic symptoms of chronic liver disease were notably absent .
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Such a statement of principle is notably absent from the Government's proposals.
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Strangely, nobody said anything, but the culprit has been notably absent from subsequent holidays.
noticeably
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Allister, Kane, and Dodds have also been noticeably absent from public confrontations.
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Jackson and the national media were noticeably absent from Baltimore last November, when a similar incident happened.
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But what was noticeably absent was any serious intra-group rivalry.
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This includes parents, students, and the incumbent workers themselves-whose voices are noticeably absent in shaping many school-to-work initiatives.
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The Democratic leadership in Congress, which was noticeably absent at the signing ceremony, fought the measure.
totally
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Of course such features are never totally absent in experimental work.
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A major food source of squirrels and many finches is totally absent this year.
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We assume that contractions were totally absent or failed to occlude the intestinal lumen.
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Strategic analysis and vision was almost totally absent .
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Nor was a desire to retaliate for the Triple Intervention of 1895 totally absent .
■ NOUN
father
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Barras conducted a number of interviews that bear moving witness to the long shadow cast by absent fathers .
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Requiring this investment will give absent fathers incentive to take a more active personal interest in their children as well.
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In which case, may I suggest it is the absent father the authorities should be haranguing.
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I knew little of psychology but enough to be aware of the impact on the unformed ego of an absent father .
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At fifteen he ran away to sea, pursuing the myth of his absent father .
parent
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And following breakdown every effort should be made to ensure supportive continuity of contact between the child and the absent parent .
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They may fear to extend love and acceptance to the new partner as it seems a betrayal of the absent parent .
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There are many reasons why women might be unwilling to name the absent parent .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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For some reason, Young's name was absent from the list.
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If you're absent more than five times, you fail the course.
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The Adkinson children were absent from school about a dozen times last fall.
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The virus develops most quickly when antibodies are absent .
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While the boss was absent everyone started taking very long lunchbreaks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If the rest of the sustaining biosphere were absent , gardens would wither.
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Matilda was still ranting and raving against the absent Earl for getting himself captured.
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Mr Howe has no such reassurance, particularly with Gallacher absent for five games and no immediate sign of a return.
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The degree of mental stimulation was absent .
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The evidence for the next higher stage is not entirely absent but, in this case, it is indirect.
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The little birds had assumed the roles of birds that were absent from the area.
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The seas and rivers, lakes and glaciers, are gone; the dynamic play of rain and liquid water is absent .
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To capture the truth of the object then, the poem argues, the object must be absent .
II. verb
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■ ADVERB
conspicuously
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And, once again, the big names have been conspicuously absent from the upper half of the performance table.
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Stories of substance, new and old alike, are often conspicuously absent .
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Intelligence did not figure. largely in anything he did and was often conspicuously absent .
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For women this is good news, because they are conspicuously absent from the Official Future.
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But past controversies were conspicuously absent this weekend.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I had not had the benefit of that lovely electricity for long, but how I did miss it when it absented itself.