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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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One of the most crucial technologies that must be scaled is a technique called long-read genome sequencing.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 Oct. 2025
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In its first year, the company scaled from just three clients to over one hundred, entirely through word-of-mouth referrals.—
Wyles Daniel,
AZCentral.com,
2 Oct. 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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Additionally, frost advisories spanned parts of northwestern California, eastern Washington, and northwestern Minnesota.—
Joe Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
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The 2025 investigation of Comey followed the same evidence and matched the conclusion reached by Durham, whose vast investigation spanned four years and two presidential administrations.—
Katherine Faulders,
ABC News,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Plumbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plumbed. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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