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Recent Examples of fathom
Victor has only begun to fathom a future without her son.
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Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 3 June 2025
But now, with the grandkids, my parents do fathom the odds.
—Frances Dodds Samantha Desz Krish Seenivasan Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 18 May 2025
There is one thing, however, that’s hard to fathom.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 May 2025
People in Michigan never fathomed a trade war with Canada.
—Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
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Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 3 June 2025
But now, with the grandkids, my parents do fathom the odds.
—Frances Dodds Samantha Desz Krish Seenivasan Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 18 May 2025
There is one thing, however, that’s hard to fathom.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 May 2025
People in Michigan never fathomed a trade war with Canada.
—Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 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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Police and Young said security video shows a person scaling a wall to the subdivision and then walking directly to Young's home.—
Dennis Romero,
NBC news,
20 June 2025
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Without clarity about the future of trade policy, manufacturers are left wondering about when to scale up—and how.—
Kate Nishimura,
Sourcing Journal,
20 June 2025
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What To Know At a summit in Astana, Kazakhstan on Tuesday, Xi announced a dozen cooperation agreements spanning green mining, trade, connectivity, personnel exchanges, and customs, according to Chinese state media.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 June 2025
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Knox and his team’s work is an exemplar of how multidisciplinary research spanning meteorology, cartography, geography, and other social sciences disciplines can inform decisionmakers and save lives.—
Marshall Shepherd,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
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“Fathom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fathom. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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