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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  • 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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  • At times it has been scrutinized, scaled back, or delayed.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • About 14% of service companies in the New York-Northern New Jersey area have scaled back hiring or plan to do so in the next six months as a result of artificial intelligence but few have laid off employees so far as a result of the burgeoning technology, a new survey shows.
    Paul Davidson, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Fathomed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fathomed. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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