fills in
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"It was a smooth surface, and almost concave. That's not how sediment normally fills in, and I kept seeing it in multiple specimens. I was like, 'Okay, there's something weird here,'" he says.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
"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
O’Farrell fills in the many missing pieces: the love, the anguish, the drive to turn real-life tragedy into art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 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
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