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"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

Haugstatter, Delpique’s right-hand man, handles scheduling and fills in for him on Fridays and Saturdays—Delpique’s days off.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025

Stepmother Ellen Hargitay fills in a lot of holes, without claiming to know everything about everything.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025

But you don’t notice that you’re blind during saccades because your brain fills in the screen in your head to make it seem like you’re looking out of two little windows in your head.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon