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Recent Examples of plumbed
Much as Wes Anderson and Yorgos Lanthimos have plumbed Dafoe’s deliciously wicked sense of humor in pieces that straddle the line between the real and the archly stylized, Solnicki understands that a strong Dafoe performance must always teeter between the two.
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Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025
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
Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plumbed
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The video, filmed by someone who must have scaled one of the bridge’s three-hundred-and-ten-foot towers, is basically a eulogy created in the grip of the mind-set that caused the young girls’ deaths.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
8 Nov. 2025
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The royal couple scaled down their engagements to spend time with their three children — Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis — during their school's half-term break, and the family moved into their new home, Forest Lodge in Windsor.—
Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
8 Nov. 2025
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The big puzzles of today, including dark matter, dark energy, and the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry, could hardly have been fathomed at the time.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
28 Oct. 2025
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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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Kirkland’s acting career spanned six decades, ran the gamut from film to TV to the stage, and comprised over 250 roles.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Nov. 2025
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Back in Iran, Ershadi’s more recent films have spanned female racing driver drama Lelah; mountain village tale Mahoor and posthumous credit The Hill of Kites.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
11 Nov. 2025
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“Plumbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plumbed. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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