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The only solution Owens and Austin Baurichter could fathom then was creating a ballot measure.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

But during a week when the canted economy just created its first trillionaire, I can’t fathom why Sarnoski felt we needed this version of Robin Hood now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Gary Lineker was watching and he couldn't fathom it.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

Protagonist Louden Swain, a high-school senior, can’t fathom why Elmo, an older and impecunious cook at the hotel where they’re both employed, is missing work to watch him wrestle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

He could not fathom, for the life of him, if Luba Luft’s semantic fog had purpose.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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

One hundred fathoms down a marlin was eating the sardines that covered the point and the shank of the hook where the hand-forged hook projected from the head of the small tuna.

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

Brandishing a competitive nature and an extreme love of live entertainment, TV and movies since childhood, she never could have fathomed that a blend of all of those attributes could equate to a job.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2024

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

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

The thing she’d wanted, the thing she dreamed of, belonged to her and was better than anything she could have fathomed.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

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

From Washington Post ● Sep. 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

He was also being “completely honest,” baring a bewildered and troubled soul, not fathoming why he is so uninspired to play a sport he intends, or hopes, to continue on with.

From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2017

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 Vance, Louis Joseph