The phrase "absent prior" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to indicate that something is missing or not present before a certain point in time or event.
Example: "The report was submitted absent prior approval from the committee."
Alternatives: "without previous" or "lacking prior".
In the ten when he has been absent prior to last night they had let in 19.
Absent prior agreement, you're free to do what you'd like in the postseason; it's a separate transaction.
Section 215's authorities for collecting business records has become a routine investigative tool for the FBI, and civil libertarians are united with NSA defenders in doubting that the GOP-led Congress will reauthorize it absent prior surveillance reforms.
(ii) Absent prior cross-covariate restrictions on treatment outcomes, they prescribe inference that is completely separate across covariates, leading to no-data rules as the support of a covariate grows.
Following the withdrawal of CPB and onset of acute left heart failure, TEE showed a high-brightness massive shadow at the left coronary ostium (Fig. 3) that was absent prior to surgery (Fig. 2).
Also under the agreement, the IAEA has "unprecedented access" to Iran's nuclear facilities -- something that was absent prior to negotiations -- and that access would end if talks collapsed.
Robert MacCoun, a social psychologist from the University of California at Berkeley, said of the results, "There is no intrinsic tendency for groups to be more cautious than individuals, absent any prior history or explicit hierarchy in the group".
Absent some prior agreement, this would seem rather odd.
Relational intimacy is hypothesized to underlie the association between female sexual functioning and various sexual outcomes, and married women and women with sexual dysfunction have been generally absent from prior studies investigating these associations, thus restricting generalizability.
Absent a prior commitment to picture theory, this seems quite sufficient to account for their spatial imagination abilities, and even their dreams (Kerr, Foulkes, & Schmidt, 1982; Thomas, 1987 §II.B.6; Kerr & Domhoff, 2004).
For example, introducing a filing fee can make it optimal to minimize what losing plaintiffs pay winning defendants and to reduce the evidence threshold as much as possible — even though the direct effect of these adjustments is to chill desirable behavior, a key feature absent in prior work.
