plumb new depths

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: to reach the lowest or worse state or condition

The team is plumbing new depths this season.

The company's stocks plumbed new depths this week.

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Together Real-life married couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco bravely plumb new depths of codependency in Michael Shanks’s Together, which sees elementary-school teacher Millie and aspiring musician Tim literally unable to separate after drinking some mystical cave water. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025 But the past week has seen Nunez’s Liverpool career plumb new depths. — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025

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