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Recent Examples of plumbed
Much as Wes Anderson and Yorgos Lanthimos have plumbed Dafoe’s deliciously wicked sense of humor in pieces that straddle the line between the real and the archly stylized, Solnicki understands that a strong Dafoe performance must always teeter between the two.
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Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025
For nearly five decades, NASA's twin Voyager probes have plumbed the cosmos in search of answers to some of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries about our solar system and its place in the wider universe.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
Toews has long plumbed the calamities and contradictions of her biography in her fiction.
—Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2025
Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025
For nearly five decades, NASA's twin Voyager probes have plumbed the cosmos in search of answers to some of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries about our solar system and its place in the wider universe.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
Toews has long plumbed the calamities and contradictions of her biography in her fiction.
—Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plumbed
Verb
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They can be scaled to tons of different ability levels, from beginner gym-goer to pro athlete.—
Jenny McCoy,
SELF,
24 Oct. 2025
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There are plenty who hope to match the success of billionaire founders like Brian Chesky, who scaled Airbnb into a $79 billion rental behemoth.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The big puzzles of today, including dark matter, dark energy, and the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry, could hardly have been fathomed at the time.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
28 Oct. 2025
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For reasons nobody has ever quite fathomed, people finally became receptive to the concept.—
Brian Santo,
IEEE Spectrum,
7 Nov. 2019
Verb
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The two broadcasters' team-up spanned two seasons starring Ncuti Gatwa as the titular Time Lord as well as five specials between 2023 and 2025, and an upcoming five-episode spinoff series, The War Between the Land and the Sea.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Oct. 2025
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The commitment to one another has spanned more than 65 years and Giammetti believes the couturier’s faithfulness to his own style formed a cornerstone of his success.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Plumbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plumbed. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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