Meaning & use
lacuna
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A gap or missing part, especially in a text, argument, or body of knowledge.
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Historians identified a lacuna in the manuscript where several pages were lost.
The report leaves a troubling lacuna in its explanation of the accident.
A note on using this word
A formal, somewhat literary word; the plural is 'lacunae.'
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