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• And that’s where readers have come in to fill the gaps.
  — Adrian Vore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
• Credit cards fill the gaps, putting food on the table and gas in the tank.
  — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 6 Mar. 2021
• There are signs that China is seeking to fill the gaps.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 21 Mar. 2022
• The pandemic put new emphasis on the need to fill the gaps.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 26 Mar. 2023
• This can help fill the gaps between your skin cells — and lock in moisture while your skin is still damp.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• Of course, Amazon will surely have an influx of style deals that will fill the gaps in your wardrobe.
  — Wendy Vazquez, Southern Living, 24 May 2024
• Fintechs and digital upstarts emerged to fill the gaps but lacked a true balance sheet.
  — Michael Abbott, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• But as work continued, researchers began to fill the gaps.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• Maui is in desperate need of help and the foundation has stepped in to fill the gaps and find the people that aid isn’t getting to quickly enough.
  — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
• And new staff are often thrown into the job without adequate training just to fill the gaps.
  — Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2022
• France is betting that immigrant labor may help fill the gaps.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
• Just last month alone, 50 officers left the department, with only eight to 10 recruits ready to fill the gaps.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 16 Aug. 2022
• The United States is boosting its own production of artillery shells sixfold to fill the gaps.
  — Boryana Dzhambazova, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• An excellent thermal paste will fill the gaps between your CPU and its cooler and reduce the heat build-up.
  — Toby Grey, BGR, 15 Sep. 2022
• If teams have fewer than 13 players available, teams must sign a 10-day hardship player or players to fill the gaps.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Jan. 2022
• Despite this, there are still several key players that could fill the gaps on defense as eight starters returned to the roster.
  — Dallas News, 26 Oct. 2022
• Amber Bonner, a school board member in Alpine, also has been working as a substitute to help fill the gaps.
  — Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Jan. 2022
• Begin by placing a small pillar vessel inside a larger vase, and fill the gaps between the two with red and white marbles.
  — Erynn Hassinger, Country Living, 29 Nov. 2022
• When a movie is running at 24 frames per second, for example, but the refresh rate is higher, the TV may insert extra frames to fill the gaps.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 14 July 2023
• Volunteers try to fill the gaps, but even those informal supports are nearly tapped out.
  — Jennifer Greenfield, The Denver Post, 27 Jan. 2024
• School Board President Bob Peterson said the district has been exploring ways to fill the gaps.
  — Rory Linnane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Sep. 2021
• Teachers have always done this to fill the gaps students have who may have moved from outside our school system, or even within our school system.
  — Julie Hotopp, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2022
• Nonprofits fill the gaps when government support waxes and wanes and when the public's attention turns to the next shiny-object cause.
  — Stacy Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 23 Jan. 2023
• Then there are one-off deals at several brands to fill the gaps in your summer travel packing lists, from bras and swimwear at Cuup to summer denim at Warp + Weft.
  — Halie Lesavage, harpersbazaar.com, 25 May 2023
• All-American, also arrives as a transfer from Texas Tech to help fill the gaps left behind from the backcourt departures.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 6 July 2021
• The project helped Markosian understand Svetlana’s perspective and fill the gaps in her childhood memories.
  — Diana Markosian, Magazine, 8 Dec. 2020
• Unsatisfied with answers from the media and government, people look elsewhere for answers, and some step in to fill the gaps.
  — WIRED, 15 Feb. 2023
• The reason has to do with the liquid electrolytes that fill the gaps between the lithium cobalt oxide and graphite layers (remember them?) and stop the two components from touching.
  — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
• All the while, Savarese and his staff desperately attempted to fill the gaps by tweaking formations and adjusting the style of their attack.
  — oregonlive, 19 Nov. 2021
• As a result, a large portion of the labor pool is shuffling around, and employers are scrambling to fill the gaps that departing workers leave behind.
  — Steven Kramer, Forbes, 6 June 2022

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024