lacuna
Example Sentences
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Even as Ms. Back writes searchingly and evocatively about her suffering, she finds that narrative prose cannot depict the “black pit of depression, a landscape marked by lacunae.”
The court found "there were some critical lacunae" in relevant Swiss regulations, including a failure to quantify limits on national greenhouse gas emissions.
From Barron's
“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
As for a biography of Talking Heads, we are still left with a lacuna that Gould has unfortunately not filled.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From Los Angeles Times
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