lacuna

Example Sentences

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A single palm-size vertebra, its central lacuna heart-shaped, had us wondering about its origin story.

From New York Times

True, Theranos managed to survive for far too long by exploiting an odd lacuna in the Food and Drug Administration’s regulatory authority over lab tests.

From Washington Post

"You now have empty shelves. The return of those objects will be like filling those shelves. There's a lacuna in our history because those objects were taken away."

From BBC

In the field of religious studies, there was a conspicuous lacuna that Dr. Raboteau — and the later scholars he inspired — began to fill.

From Washington Post

Ever since I turned to art professionally, the most shameful lacuna in my American museumgoing career has lied here in the Motor City.

From New York Times