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- noun Plural form of
truancy .
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Examples
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Administrators and teachers already have so much to contend with -- safety issues in high-crime communities, chronic student truancies, debilitating health issues due to poverty, families in a constant state of flux, not to mention blocked access to wide swaths of the Internet.
Tina Barseghian: For At-Risk Youth, Is Learning Digital Media a Luxury? Tina Barseghian 2011
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Administrators and teachers already have so much to contend with -- safety issues in high-crime communities, chronic student truancies, debilitating health issues due to poverty, families in a constant state of flux, not to mention blocked access to wide swaths of the Internet.
Tina Barseghian: For At-Risk Youth, Is Learning Digital Media a Luxury? Tina Barseghian 2011
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I assume all is going well until the attendance office call about truancies, and fail notices arrive in the mail.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times, Tough People Jack Canfield 2009
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I assume all is going well until the attendance office call about truancies, and fail notices arrive in the mail.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times, Tough People Jack Canfield 2009
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Or if your job-losing parents keep moving you from school to school with long truancies in between.
The Education Reform that All Politicians Ignore: Ending Poverty Jim Horn 2008
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Or if your job-losing parents keep moving you from school to school with long truancies in between.
Archive 2008-09-01 Jim Horn 2008
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For the students with chronic truancies, however, students thought it was about time their peers answered up.
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For the students with chronic truancies, however, students thought it was about time their peers answered up.
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Chavez has used him well, got extreme leniency for all his electoral truancies and now that Insulza is of no more use for him he is discarded, just as Chavez discards anything on his way.
What Venezuelans voted for: socialism of the XXI century (a.k.a. rehashed communism) 2007
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We have worked to strengthen and expand the Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program, to enforce zero tolerance for guns in schools, to encourage communities to crack down on truancies, to support those who wish to adopt school uniform policies.
Remarks By The President At School Safety Event ITY National Archives 1998
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