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Four years later, he has absented himself utterly from the quagmire in which nearly 90 million Egyptians find themselves.

From Newsweek • Jul. 18, 2013

This will be the first time in the 15 years of his reign that the King has absented himself from the country on vacation.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is the wandering scent of a cigar in the shrubbery, and they may meet Floyd, who has absented himself since dinner.

From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

As the said Don Pedro de Monrroy has absented and hidden himself, its execution has not been entirely carried out in regard to expelling him from the country.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 by Blair, Emma Helen

This is the third day he has absented himself.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp