fathomed

Example Sentences

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Ken Ono’s career as one of the world’s most prominent mathematicians has taken him to Hollywood and the Olympics, places that he never could have fathomed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

Where this has led could be fathomed at the Ojai Festival in June.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2025

"We never fathomed it would be this catastrophic and apocalyptic."

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2025

“He did something she could have never anticipated or fathomed or predicted,” Ms. Smith said.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2024

My difficulty was further compounded by the fact that for some years my father and I had tended - for some reason I have never really fathomed - to converse less and less.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro