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as in shortage
a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number
attributes many of the nation's problems to a lacuna of leadership at the top
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as in gap
an incomplete or deficient area
a lacuna in its collection of Impressionists that the museum is trying to fill
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Yet surveying this landscape reveals a curious lacuna: software criticism, in which a piece of software is subjected to critical analysis.
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WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023
Ta-Nehisi Coates, in a devastating essay in the show’s catalogue, fills in the lacuna with his well-known, scorching pessimism about white mind-sets.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
Data sets, some spanning decades, now feature a lacuna.
—Boyce Upholt, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2022
Of course, the big lacuna in deterrence theory is how to deter the idiot or, say, the leader who badly understands his own position.
—WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
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WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023
Ta-Nehisi Coates, in a devastating essay in the show’s catalogue, fills in the lacuna with his well-known, scorching pessimism about white mind-sets.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
Data sets, some spanning decades, now feature a lacuna.
—Boyce Upholt, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2022
Of course, the big lacuna in deterrence theory is how to deter the idiot or, say, the leader who badly understands his own position.
—WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
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“Lacuna.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lacuna. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
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