fills in
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Mr. Greenberger, a journalist and a biographer of Chester Arthur, fills in the details of this peripatetic life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
"It was a smooth surface, and almost concave. That's not how sediment normally fills in, and I kept seeing it in multiple specimens. I was like, 'Okay, there's something weird here,'" he says.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
"While Sepa do their own regular monitoring of rivers, this fills in the gaps and allows everyone to react quickly if something is going wrong."
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
The Journal’s article fills in some of the blanks.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
And you don’t notice that words have changed on another part of the page because your mind fills in a picture of things you’re not looking at at that moment.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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