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
"We never fathomed it would be this catastrophic and apocalyptic."
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2025
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
Jeni and Christina, who didn’t want their last names used for privacy reasons, made the decision that neither ever fathomed they would make: ending a wanted pregnancy in the third trimester.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2022
But I never fathomed the need of the culture even for the smallest acts.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
