How to Use absenteeism in a Sentence

absenteeism

noun

• High school students were more likely to stay and also faced chronic absenteeism and mental health struggles.
  — Kate Sequeira, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
• Local union officials counter that Stellantis has made a high number of temporary hires who have caused much of the absenteeism.
  — Tom Krisher, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2024
• Are the students that are behind or at risk of falling behind experiencing issues with absenteeism?
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
• Tyson Foods says it’s raising wages to combat absenteeism and worker turnover at its plants as U.S. demand for chicken soars.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 12 May 2021
• More frequent and pronounced reactions could lead to higher rates of absenteeism from work on the day after the second inoculation.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 12 May 2021
• Even before the attack, U.S. meat prices were rising due to coronavirus shutdowns, bad weather and high plant absenteeism.
  — Rod McGuirk and Dee-Ann Durbin, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2021
• And Ohio records of absenteeism at schools for the past few years show parents did.
  — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 17 Jan. 2023
• Half of the achievement gap can be traced to absenteeism, Smith said.
  — Geri Stengel, Forbes, 23 June 2021
• And the rise in chronic absenteeism is indeed a sign that schools need help.
  — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• That often means absenteeism — and in the near and long term, failure.
  — Kat Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2023
• Still, the chronic absenteeism trends were most profound in high school.
  — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• The low turnout is a part of a larger chronic absenteeism problem that's plagued the district for over a decade.
  — Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 13 Jan. 2022
• The rate of absenteeism during the span has been the highest since the pandemic began.
  — Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022
• Petersburg schools are some of the most trouble-plagued in the state, with 2½ times the state’s average for absenteeism.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2022
• The initial pilot schools have some of the highest chronic absenteeism rates in the district.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 9 Mar. 2022
• The district had a 53% chronic absenteeism rate, which rose since the previous school year and is worse for Black students.
  — The Enquirer, 15 Sep. 2022
• In some places, like Colorado and Oregon, the rates of chronic absenteeism are even higher.
  — Leigh Paterson, NPR, 18 May 2024
• There’s a whole host of things that are happening there: illness and injury, absenteeism, turnover, worker’s comp and on and on and on.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2022
• Farley didn't say why Ford would see a spike in absenteeism but not its competitors.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 27 Aug. 2021
• Covid-19 has made in-person work riskier while vacancies and absenteeism have raised the burden on those who show up.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2022
• Last school year, the state’s students had an average chronic absenteeism rate of 23.7%.
  — USA Today, 12 June 2023
• Chronic absenteeism surged, with the number of students missing 10 percent of the school year more than doubling.
  — Christopher Huffaker, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2022
• In Chicago, the rate of absenteeism stood at about 15 percent before winter break, but around a third of students stayed home on the first day of the new semester.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 12 Jan. 2022
• Rates of absenteeism can be hard to compare nationally because schools do not report the data in the same way, nor on the same timetable.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• Chronic absenteeism had been stable at a lower rate for many years.
  — Jazmine Heredia, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024
• The classes are so popular that absenteeism drops to virtually nil on the days they are held.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 17 May 2022
• There are especially high rates of absenteeism at the high school level, according to the study.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 21 Oct. 2021
• Research also shows that taking time off can reduce rates of stress and absenteeism.
  — Molly Johnson-Jones, Fortune Europe, 5 Feb. 2024
• On a day when the Browns were trying to focus on their ‘Stay in the Game’ initiative to keep kids in school and abolish absenteeism, Watson’s ordeal stole the headlines.
  — cleveland, 6 June 2022
• High levels of absenteeism are a disaster for students and schools.
  — Koby Levin and Ethan Bakuli, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024