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Discover LudwigThe phrase "absent the light" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a situation or condition where light is not present or available.
Example: "The room felt eerie and cold, absent the light of the flickering candles."
Alternatives: "without the light" or "lacking the light".
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In early 1909, unrest broke out in Apia; because Condor was absent, the light cruisers and and Jaguar were sent to suppress the uprising.
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It all started in 1922, when American astronomer Mary Lea Heger noticed that certain wavelengths were consistently absent in the light emitted by binary star systems in the constellations Orion and Scorpius.
Compared to the maximum contrast condition (Figure 2A), looping was remarkably reduced at minimal contrast, and virtually absent when the light was off, implicating visual-input and contrast dependence of looping in bel rev (Figure 2B, Table S1).
Prior to scheduled daytime feeding, wheel running activity was concentrated during the first 6 8 h of the 10 h dark period, declined during the last 2 4 h of dark, and was virtually absent during the light period, in all three groups of mice.
His installation at the steel-pipe entrance and roof includes reflective steel mirrors to catch the polar summer light, and fiber-optic cables to recreate the absent natural light in the dark winters.
After half an hour I put it down to his normal absent-mindedness and switched the light off myself.
"If I ever become a Saint-I will surely be one of 'darkness.' I will continually be absent from heaven-to light the light of those in darkness on earth" is her deep desire.
In the light of absent stress priming in the reaction time data, the ERPs reveal that lexical decision latencies obtained in word onset priming do not track those aspects of spoken word processing.
Absent that, they don't see the light of day".
"I will continually be absent from Heaven--to light the light of those in darkness on earth". .
The overall misfit observed for the SH model is likely to be due to the high estimate of genetic dominance, which is, in the light of practically absent additive genetic effects, biologically unlikely (Falconer and Mackay 1989).
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