Just making sure: can this mean the same thing as "Not all of them are present"?
Some people may likely use it that way.
For others, this clearly means "All of them are absent."
I personally would more likely say it, and definitely write it, this way to avoid any misunderstanding, or like the indirectly-linked item, depending on what I wanted to say.
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