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Recent Examples of plumbed
Toews has long plumbed the calamities and contradictions of her biography in her fiction.
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Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2025
Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plumbed
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At times it has been scrutinized, scaled back, or delayed.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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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
Verb
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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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As of June 30, NBIM’s real estate holdings spanned 15 countries, with 486 property investments worth more than $16 billion in the United States.—
Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
3 Sep. 2025
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At least, that’s according to Dick Ruzzin, former chief Chevrolet and Cadillac designer whose career at General Motors spanned 40 years and who happened to serve as creative designer on the project under Chief Designer Stan Wilen.—
Jackie Charniga,
USA Today,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Plumbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plumbed. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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