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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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Others have scaled this up by connecting the heat from their mining infrastructure to district heating systems, helping over 80,000 people stay warm or grow tomatoes or even tulips in greenhouses.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Jan. 2026
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Project proponents previously promised voters 27 miles of light-rail track in exchange for a 23% tax hike, but the plan has been scaled back to fewer than 10 miles while costs have stayed the same.—
Austin American Statesman,
Austin American Statesman,
12 Jan. 2026
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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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Joe Don Baker, an actor whose career spanned nearly 50 years, died at age 89 on May 7.—
Brendan Le,
PEOPLE,
5 Jan. 2026
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At its widest in the 1950s, the inlet spanned 500 feet across and 13 feet deep.—
Jack Prator,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 Jan. 2026
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