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"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

It’s almost hard to fathom how any other individual could surpass his wealth, barring some company-specific problem.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

If you can’t fathom forking over hundreds of dollars a night, or more, for a hotel, this is yet another reason the premium cards probably aren’t right for you.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Evan Mawarire is a Zimbabwean pastor and activist, and since 2008, his home country has experienced a kind of inflation and economic instability that is hard to fathom.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

She could not fathom it: living here before going off to war.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

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

And after some initial tests in the shallow water, the Thresher headed out to where the ocean was 1,400 fathoms, or a mile and half, deep.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2019

He looked wildly up at the frowning wall, where the road-builders of old had cut the rock sheer for many fathoms above their heads.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

“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

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

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

While James is a good-looking, good-natured young man, he's rather lost when it comes to fathoming the way Pünd can unravel mysteries.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2022

Medvedev had difficulty fathoming that he’d have to win the Australian Open every year until he was 34 to match Djokovic’s success there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 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

Never once did it have to do the hard work of fathoming an unfathomable score.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2017

Long points of light pierced the gloom below the opposite shore, like golden plummets that were slowly fathoming its opaque tide.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett