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Recent Examples of fathom
The reason isn’t hard to fathom.
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Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
Some liked to have them on hand, and others couldn’t fathom not boiling eggs themselves.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2026
The lowest point in Ekman-Larsson’s career made a lengthy NHL future — never mind the Olympics — hard to fathom.
—Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
The quest to fathom the riotous diversity of nature is absorbingly told in a virtual double biography of the great taxonomist Carl Linnaeus and his contemporary, the count of Buffon.
—Ian Tattersall, The New York Review of Books, 5 Feb. 2026
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Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
Some liked to have them on hand, and others couldn’t fathom not boiling eggs themselves.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2026
The lowest point in Ekman-Larsson’s career made a lengthy NHL future — never mind the Olympics — hard to fathom.
—Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
The quest to fathom the riotous diversity of nature is absorbingly told in a virtual double biography of the great taxonomist Carl Linnaeus and his contemporary, the count of Buffon.
—Ian Tattersall, The New York Review of Books, 5 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fathom
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This documentary plumbs the issue in a personal, entertaining and thought-provoking way.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2026
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The surviving Wiggin sisters have done enough interviews over the years, that New Yorker article among them, that some of the mystery has gotten cleared up, for those who cared to plumb it.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
15 Mar. 2026
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Backed by Yangtze River Industry Group, researchers aim to scale production, expecting chip-scale atomic clocks to expand into military and civilian communication applications as costs decline.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Mar. 2026
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The city began tightening its belt around December, implementing a limited hiring freeze and scaling back some services after revenues came in $15 million to $20 million below projections.—
Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2026
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That’s why our testers—spanning a wide range of skin types, ages, and skin concerns—have spent months determining which products actually deliver on their fine-line-smoothing and dark-circle-erasing promises.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
18 Mar. 2026
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But in recent weeks, Cal OES published on its website a series of problem notice letters to several providers, most of which were sent to NGA, spanning 2021 to 2025.—
William Melhado,
Sacbee.com,
18 Mar. 2026
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“Fathom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fathom. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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