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

As for a biography of Talking Heads, we are still left with a lacuna that Gould has unfortunately not filled.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 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

This is related to a question of ethics, which is what is falling in that lacuna between greatness and crap that only criticism can both explicate and reify in some way.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2022

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