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Many modern xylems have intricate cross sections that look like gappy rings, crosses, diamonds or hearts, with dead space called pith separating bundles of xylem tissue.

From Scientific American • Jan. 27, 2023

But the fossils offer “limited, rather gappy lines of evidence” of possible migrations, said Andrea Manica, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Cambridge and an author on the new paper.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2021

Her approach to their experiences is similarly fragmentary—full in its approach to detail but dramatically gappy and fitful.

From The New Yorker • May 26, 2017

It features mocked-up pictures of gappy, unaligned teeth belonging, among others, to Buckingham Palace guards, the Prince of Wales and Sherlock Holmes.

From BBC • May 26, 2015

He laughed, silently, rocking on his heels, his gappy teeth bared.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman