fathomed

past tense of fathom
as in plumbed
to measure the depth of (as a body of water) typically with a weighted line the pilot had to continually fathom the river, which drought conditions had lowered to unprecedented levels

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Recent Examples of fathomed For reasons nobody has ever quite fathomed, people finally became receptive to the concept. Brian Santo, IEEE Spectrum, 7 Nov. 2019
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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
  • 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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  • Uber was born out of correcting a daily annoyance, which scaled a $203 billion company.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The rough estimate, cited by Vice President JD Vance on Thursday, pales in comparison to previous estimates that scaled closer to $40 billion.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025

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“Fathomed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fathomed. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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