How to Use lacuna in a Sentence

lacuna

noun
  • She found a lacuna in the historical record.
  • The hollow is rich and generative, a lacuna of a kind Ball has mastered.
    — Ellie Robins, latimes.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Learning softer skills and managerial skills will help fill the lacuna.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 5 May 2020
  • The lacuna bespeaks incuriosity about the wife of the great man, which Merz was at no pains to correct.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2017
  • No one has undertaken a chronicle from Alaric’s point of view, a lacuna that makes this book worthwhile—and hard to pull off.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • The rest of Marie’s biography is an open conjecture, and Groff rides into that lacuna on a noble steed.
    — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
  • But at least part of this outrage lacuna must be attributable to the distorting effects of partisanship.
    — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 16 Feb. 2018
  • If all goes according to plan, a most curious lacuna of Japanese cinema history could soon come to a close.
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Obviously the giant lacuna in that sort of analysis is that there was segregation in the country, the status of women, status of gay people, etc.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 29 Sep. 2017
  • One lacuna in this report is the lack of attention to agricultural habitats as an important repository of bird diversity.
    — Neha Jain, Quartz India, 24 Feb. 2020
  • The reason is misinformation for sure, and more fundamentally a lacuna in thinking prompted by an emotional reaction.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • This lacuna reflects a widespread documentary practice that’s also a conventional lapse in aesthetic judgment.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2022
  • There, many of Cale’s pet fascinations, like the precariousness of memory and the lacuna between yourself and other people, opened themselves up with a lovely quietness.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The alternative outcome goes unmentioned thanks to a giant lacuna that exists in half of America’s mental landscape, and in the mental landscape of 99% of the media.
    — WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
  • With a lacuna of primary evidence, Chinese historians have turned to alternate sources including fascinating insights drawn from song lyrics and poetry.
    — Beth Py-Lieberman, Smithsonian, 28 Nov. 2019
  • The constitutional prohibition on people under the age of 35 serving as president is just one of these weird lacuna that was handed down to us from the 18th century but that nobody would seriously propose creating today if not for status quo bias.
    — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 12 Dec. 2018

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