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Recent Examples of fathom
These prints in the dirt have been around longer than my mind can fathom.
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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
The whole experience proved a bit hard to fathom for a player now with five wins on Tour spread out over 12 seasons.
—Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2025
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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
The whole experience proved a bit hard to fathom for a player now with five wins on Tour spread out over 12 seasons.
—Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fathom
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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.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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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.—
Laura Collins-Hughes,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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Tracking and Iterating: Use impact reporting to refine and scale programs effectively.—
Raghvendra Tripathi,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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Rightly so, because the queue is an attraction unto itself – jaw-dropping, built to scale and packed with details from the films.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
27 May 2025
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While bustling cities abound across the region, visitors are always just a short drive away from an oasis of calm, with options spanning from pristine beaches to craggy caves to tropical rainforests that are rife with native wildlife.—
Jared Ranahan,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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The price tag ballooned as Cruise and writer-director Christopher McQuarrie (who helmed the past three entries as well) worked on the film through COVID protocols, two Hollywood strikes and inflation increases spanning a years-long production.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
24 May 2025
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“Fathom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fathom. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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