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’s been a lacuna, and it’s been something that I really never thought we’d have a prayer of fixing,” said Barron.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2025
“Islamic material has been something of a lacuna for them.”
From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2023
"You now have empty shelves. The return of those objects will be like filling those shelves. There's a lacuna in our history because those objects were taken away."
From BBC • Oct. 27, 2021
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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