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Recent Examples of fathom
Minnesota Timberwolves star Julius Randle was among the many who couldn’t fathom the horrific shooting that left at least two children dead and 17 others injured in a Minnesota church on Wednesday.
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Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 27 Aug. 2025
That makes his occasional struggle all the more difficult to fathom.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Many novelists do, but her vision is more complex and difficult to fathom.
—Sheila Heti
august 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
The problem is that this formulation is tough to fathom and even harder to operationalize.
—Rachel Barr, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
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Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 27 Aug. 2025
That makes his occasional struggle all the more difficult to fathom.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Many novelists do, but her vision is more complex and difficult to fathom.
—Sheila Heti
august 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
The problem is that this formulation is tough to fathom and even harder to operationalize.
—Rachel Barr, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fathom
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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
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Toews has long plumbed the calamities and contradictions of her biography in her fiction.—
Kristen Martin,
The Atlantic,
27 Aug. 2025
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Technology works, but scaling it to a level that meaningfully impacts global emissions is an entirely different challenge.—
Peter Bendor-Samuel,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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At the meeting, city leaders expressed support for scaling back its congregate homeless facilities and instead focusing on micro-communities.—
Mathew Miranda,
Sacbee.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Laser-like light that spans a wide range of frequencies is a powerful tool for science and industry.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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The band’s ninth studio album has been restored, remastered and expanded with an additional 25 bonus tracks, spanning alternate studio takes and live recordings by the famed bootlegger Mike Millard at Pink Floyd’s Los Angeles Sports Arena concert on April 26, 1975.—
Sophie Williams,
Billboard,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Fathom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fathom. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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