as in absent
not present at a mandatory time and place
Her son was suspended after being truant from school a number of times.
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Recent Examples of truant
Christian Orozco, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2024
Bowser’s bill also includes a provision that would send truant younger students to the Department of Human Services for social services, rather than the city’s Child and Family Services Agency.
—Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
Byron Pitts, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2023
In Los Angeles, school superintendent Alberto Carvalho has gone door to door; in Alabama, signs stressing the importance of attendance are displayed on front lawns; in Philadelphia, local programs have been established that send out text messages to potentially truant youths' parents.
—Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2023
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Adjective
Critics have faulted her, though, for working in court to uphold California’s death penalty, despite her personal opposition, and for her threats to jail parents of chronically truant schoolchildren.
—Christian Orozco, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2024
Bowser’s bill also includes a provision that would send truant younger students to the Department of Human Services for social services, rather than the city’s Child and Family Services Agency.
—Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
Verb
The program helps truant students get back on track.
—Byron Pitts, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2023
In Los Angeles, school superintendent Alberto Carvalho has gone door to door; in Alabama, signs stressing the importance of attendance are displayed on front lawns; in Philadelphia, local programs have been established that send out text messages to potentially truant youths' parents.
—Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for truant
Adjective
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Aside from a few minor announcements, mobile phone makers and their products were largely absent from CES.—
Eric Zeman,
PCMAG,
10 Jan. 2025
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Predictions of a downturn, once omnipresent, were mostly absent from the year-ahead forecasts that major financial firms typically send around to clients over the holidays.—
Talmon Joseph Smith,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Our asphalt arrival gate was on the total opposite end of our idling overseas plane.—
Denise Snodell,
Kansas City Star,
15 Jan. 2025
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Four of the company’s football production trucks, which house the wires, cable and servers to air NFL games, were idled close to Kingman, Ariz., last Tuesday night as everyone waited for the NFL to make a decision on the venue.—
Richard Deitsch,
The Athletic,
14 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The entire day felt dehumanizing, as if her nearly eight years with the company, her medical problems and her physical pain had been reduced to nothing more than malingering and scattered incidents of tardiness.—
Greg Jaffe,
Anchorage Daily News,
18 June 2023
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Goldstein, who did not return a message seeking comment, practices in Chicago and has lectured on the topic of malingering, according to a resume posted online.—
Matt Hamilton,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2023
Verb
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Picture a disheveled gambler, with his empty pockets sticking out, trying to bum a smoke from someone on the Las Vegas strip.—
Jay Paris,
Forbes,
3 Jan. 2025
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When someone in the music industry told him that Deconstruction had already broken up, the news deeply bummed him out.—
Aaron Gilbreath,
SPIN,
31 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Plus, the company furloughed 82 employees last week, and also idled its Oklahoma factory – where it's believed to have produced only a small number of vehicles for fleet customers.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
23 Dec. 2024
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During the last one, in 2018 and 2019, thousands of federal workers were furloughed or experienced disruptions in pay.—
Mychael Schnell,
The Hill,
21 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Instead, Spurs dawdled during negotiations and, in the end, Slot stayed with the Dutch club for another season before joining Liverpool.—
Oli Gamp,
The Athletic,
22 Dec. 2024
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Once again, the Packers — who still had two timeouts — diddled and dawdled and didn’t run another play until there were just 16 seconds left in the half.—
Rob Reischel,
Forbes,
15 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Tule elk wander Point Reyes and elephant seals laze on its beaches.—
Tasha Zemke,
Outside Online,
30 Dec. 2024
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Getty The best things to do in Lake Annecy There are more than enough opportunities to laze about with coffee and pain au chocolat, meander through Old Town Annecy’s labyrinth streets (especially during its spectacular Christmas Market season), or unwind at several spas.—
Michael Venutolo-Mantovani,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Dec. 2024
Verb
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However, others have questioned how she was so easily fooled.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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The attackers disguise themselves as fake Google Ads login pages to fool advertisers, who are then phished for their account credentials.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Truant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truant. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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