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• n  a leave usually taken every seventh year
• a  of or relating to the Sabbath
  Friday is a sabbatical day for Muslims
• a  of or relating to sabbatical leave
  sabbatical research project

• In 1996 the brothers took a sabbatical from the series, which first appeared in 1981, but this month they now joined by older brother Mario are back with all new .
• Rumors in Silicon Valley and inside Microsoft abound that the sabbatical is the presentable public face that has been put on a very private ousting orchestrated by Microsoft's .
• Throughout the sabbatical year, called shmita, the whole land lay fallow.

• sabbatical leave
• sabbatic

News & Articles

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• All Blacks captain McCaw to return from leave with club
  WELLINGTON (Reuters) - World Cup winning captain Richie McCaw will return to rugby in early-to-mid July by playing for his local club in Christchurch, though was unsure as to whether he would play Super Rugby for the Canterbury Crusaders. The 32-year-old has been on a New Zealand Rugby Union-approved sabbatical for six months in order to prolong his international career through until the All ...
  June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Rugby-All Blacks captain McCaw to return from leave with club
  WELLINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) - World Cup winning captain Richie McCaw will return to rugby in early-to-mid July by playing for his local club in Christchurch, though was unsure as to whether he would play Super Rugby for the Canterbury Crusaders. The 32-year-old has been on a New Zealand Rugby Union-approved sabbatical for six months in order to prolong his international career through until ...
  June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Sports
• Michael Bradley is the key for the United States against Panama
  From approximately the 2006 World Cup until Landon Donovan's winter soccer sabbatical, a debate raged in U.S. soccer fan circles about who can lay claim to the title of ‘best American soccer player'. Donovan and Clint Dempsey were the only two legitimate candidates until Donovan decided to take time off and Dempsey lost his first team place at Tottenham Hotspur. The debate is now a much more ...
  June 11, 2013 - SB Nation

Quotes

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• Bill Frist in USA Today
  Frist said he and his wife, Karyn, "will take a sabbatical from public life. At this point a return to private life will allow me to return to my professional roots as a healer and to refocus my creative energies on innovative solutions to seemingly...
• Thomas M Davis in Guardian Unlimited
  Davis, a moderate Republican who has represented the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington since 1995, said in a statement that "the time is right to take a sabbatical from public life."
• Kal Penn in AFP
  Penn said he had had "a lot of fun" making the "Harold and Kumar" movies, in which he plays a marijuana-addled slacker, but that he was taking "a sabbatical from acting."