AWOL

adjective

Definition of AWOLnext
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for AWOL
  1. missing
  2. gone
  3. truant
  4. absent
  5. out
Adjective
  • The role of a mother in search of her young son who has gone missing required some singing.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
  • For every voluntary missing person who is found, there is another who is never located.
    Amanda Musa, CNN, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of missing
Adjective
  • 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
  • People have found out in the process — some who’ve gone virtual — their attendance has gone way up.
    Peggy O’Hare, ExpressNews.com, 7 May 2020
Definition of gone
Adjective
  • 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
  • Students aren’t just truant to be truant, Captain said.
    Nadia Scharf, Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2024
Definition of truant
Adjective
  • In his recent songs and music videos, Galaxy Gas tanks and any mention of whippets have been noticeably absent.
    Ben Dandridge-Lemco, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2024
  • However, Swift has also been noticeably absent for Kelce's away games as security concerns linger for the singer.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
Definition of absent
Adjective
  • More importantly, the growing outrage over the high rejection rate among California applicants forced UC to cap its out-of-state students at 18% for most of its campuses and attempt to grow its collective student body.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • People throughout Wisconsin ― as well as out-of-staters with ties to Wisconsin or the dairy industry ― started making day trips to the farm.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of out
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“AWOL.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/AWOL. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.

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