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lacuna

[luh-kyoo-nuh] / ləˈkyu nə /


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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

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