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lacuna

noun as in pause

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

It is this lack of maternal attention that sends Ellis’ two older sisters on different paths, with the same goal in mind: to fill the lacuna left by their mother’s benign neglect.

This lacuna brings to mind the last words in my 2011 Death By China film uttered by former Congressman Dana Rohrabacher: “China has been treating us like fools. And that’s because we have been fools.”

And it includes the cavities - called lacuna - that fill with the mother's blood to transfer nutrients to the baby.

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“Islamic material has been something of a lacuna for them.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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