lacuna
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“Seurat and the Sea,” a scholarly and astonishingly beautiful show now at the Courtauld Gallery, and organized by Karen Serres, the museum’s senior curator of paintings, fills that critical lacuna.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
It is this lack of maternal attention that sends Ellis’ two older sisters on different paths, with the same goal in mind: to fill the lacuna left by their mother’s benign neglect.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2025
And it includes the cavities - called lacuna - that fill with the mother's blood to transfer nutrients to the baby.
From BBC • Sep. 6, 2023
“Islamic material has been something of a lacuna for them.”
From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2023
My minimal coverage of Japan in previous editions of Guns, Germs, and Steel constituted the most important geographic lacuna of my book.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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