to measure the depth of (as a body of water) typically with a weighted line
the pilot had to continually fathom the river, which drought conditions had lowered to unprecedented levels
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Recent Examples of fathomFurious race to the finale With the 4 Nations break in February forcing a condensed NHL schedule that has had the Wild playing on a mostly every-other-night pace for the past six weeks, Fleury cannot fathom how rapidly the end of the ride is approaching.—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2025 These prints in the dirt have been around longer than my mind can fathom.—Megan Stringer, Axios, 18 Mar. 2025 Populist genre fare with a message about solidarity and fighting for your brethren against a system of control almost too vast to fathom!—Joe Reid, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2025 The reason isn’t hard to fathom.—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fathom
Its most beautiful and bracing imagery is that of cotton fields plumbed by sharecroppers, endless skies and dusty roads, the verdant expanse of a land that has witnessed so much sorrow.
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Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
And the authors, who were in their late 20s and early 30s when the show was new, seem to have been skittish about plumbing their caver’s scarier emotions.
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Laura Collins-Hughes,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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