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Meanings of go awol in English

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Usage of go awol in English
1
The former British number one appeared to go awol for much of last night's final.
The Guardian
2
The number applying for conscientious objector status has quadrupled since 2000 but remains small, though many more simply go awol.
The Guardian
3
To grasp fully why some troops go awol, one must look beyond the polls to what made them join in the first place.
The Guardian
4
Robots that mow the lawn for you already exist, but they usually require you to mark out the perimeter so the robot doesn't go awol.
The Irish Times
5
You say you didn't choose to go AWOL from the Coleridge trip?
The Anubis Gates
6
His grandson is missing and the navy says the kid's gone AWOL.
206 Bones
7
More than that, I worried about Vasilyev's reaction to our going AWOL.
Beautiful assassin
8
A recruit trying to go AWOL wasn't likely to catch their eye.
All You Need Is Kill
9
Usually a bar manager has employees going AWOL all the time.
The perfect woman
10
That's what had happened with the two sweeps who'd gone AWOL.
The passage
11
Surely everything wouldn't fall apart if they went AWOL for a few hours.
Here comes trouble
12
It's the frigging prize bull that went AWOL when we evacuated the farm.
Coalition's End
13
Betty had gone AWOL, just like in Omaha, and Hinton, and Sioux City.
Audrey's door
14
Of all the times for Artemis to go AWOL inside his own head.
Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex
15
The reasons why players have gone AWOL often reflect the nature of the times.
The Guardian
16
At the age of twenty he had gone AWOL ahead of a third deployment.
Nothing to lose
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