Thesaurus results for FATHOM

fathom

verb

as in to plumb

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 fathom The scale of what Trump has promised is difficult to fathom and without recent precedent. —

Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2025 But living in poverty and with few avenues to fathom a different way of life makes that a nearly insurmountable mission. —

Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024 Dead money will disappear from the Astros’ payroll next offseason and put the team in a better position to spend in free agency, but Tucker is now primed to make the type of money the Astros have never fathomed spending. —

Chandler Rome, The Athletic, 10 Dec. 2024 That indignity on its own is hard to fathom, but climate change has also exacerbated the aridity and seasonal heat in this region, forcing families to endure more triple-digit days without respite. —

Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 3 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for fathom

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But in that cozy enclave where the subconscious lives of men and women would be plumbed, there was some doubt that a woman doctor would have anything of value to contribute.

— Marcy Thompson, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2025
With action springing from the investigation of a high school girl’s mysterious murder in a Washington lumber mill town, the weekly ABC show plumbed disquieting, theretofore taboo subject matter and made the inexplicable a fixture of modern narrative television.

— Chris Morris, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025