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During the conversation he makes an immense effort to convince Tangen of the size, scope and speed of the AI revolution which he thinks is beyond the capacity of most people to fathom.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

"My outlook and my view of the world were not forged in Davos or Washington, but in places whose desolation I'm not sure you can even begin to fathom," he has said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

Whenever he seems confused, I’m delighted; it’s reassuring to see someone so smart still struggle to fathom this thing of ours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

If I—a single woman who lives alone and works from home—don’t have the luxury of me time, I cannot fathom what families, gig workers, and recent college graduates must endure.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

I couldn’t fathom May taking the trouble of dying just so she could go to Ohio.

From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant

But “Clarence” is also heartbreakingly sincere, with some serious plumbing of faith, commentary on systems of oppression and fathoms of emotion in Stanfield’s virtuosic double performance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2024

In the late 1800s the Yup’ik people from the Alaskan coast recorded building kayaks that were 2.5 fathoms long plus a cockpit, which was the length of an arm with a closed fist.

From Science Magazine ● May 31, 2023

“He’s playing it off. I don’t think he fathoms how bad this is. Shame on him. I hope he gets what he deserves.”

From Washington Times ● Jul. 6, 2021

You know those deep-sea fish dragged by nets from fathoms of blackness, how obvious it is that they aren’t supposed to exist where we are?

From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2020

The second was at seventy-five and the third and fourth were down in the blue water at one hundred and one hundred and twenty-five fathoms.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

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

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2025

“They came out and executed. Kicked our butts. I would’ve never fathomed that this would’ve been the conclusion of the score if you would’ve asked me a week or two weeks ago. There’s no way.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2023

This is all so much more than Evans, 36, and Schonberger, 39, could have fathomed when the idea was born almost a decade ago.

From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2023

Had she had all her wits, Desdemona could not possibly have fathomed what I was saying.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Climate change is what philosopher Timothy Morton calls a hyperobject: something that so massively occupies space and time that our puny primate brains have trouble fathoming them.

From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2025

But fathoming other universes is the essence of Theo’s job.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2021

Now, though some of the references have become more obscure with time, it’s hard to imagine anyone not fathoming the play’s gist.

From New York Times ● May 7, 2021

They are like the proverbial worker who knows how to use a hammer and thus sees everything as a nail—not fathoming the existence of other tools.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 8, 2020

The vacant eyes in the faded face of the mother were fathoming distances remote from the four walls of the slatternly room.

From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance