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An inswinger had Masood plumb lbw and Root celebrated with that child-like enthusiasm from his early England days with both arms high above his head.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Amanda is enraptured with its aspirational luxury: “The house had that hush expensive houses do. Silence meant the house was plumb, solid, its organs working in happy harmony.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

Or maybe we’ll plumb new depths of dysfunction in the coming year.

From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2025

The songs on Del Real’s first solo album — the title yet to be revealed — plumb the depths of silence and sonic expansion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025

Once more Penelope visited the library, this time in hopes that she might plumb the mysteries of the schot- tische, but to no avail.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood

He plumbs the lives of the family of William Henry Seward, one of the most consequential political men of pre-Civil War America, with a searching eye to the texture of their emotional world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

And like those other seminal dramas, it plumbs deeper questions about how we see ourselves, who we really are and who we strive to be.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2025

In keeping with its title, “Choreomaniacs,” which seems to pick up where “Revolver” leaves off, plumbs wilder depths.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

Among these some 300 pages are gems, including “Among the Trees,” by poet Carl Phillips, who plumbs the human connections that can be forged in a forest.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2023

You may do green plumbs or other fruit.

From English Housewifery Exemplified in above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts Giving Directions for most Parts of Cookery by Elizabeth Moxon

Small wonder Tom Stoppard plumbed Herzen’s writing for his theatrical trilogy, “Coast of Utopia.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Japan, which imports most of its energy, is facing a double whammy of the higher oil prices that affect everyone and even higher prices in yen terms as the currency plumbed new depths.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

For proof of the formula’s resilience, look no further than the success of VH1’s “Behind the Music” series, which plumbed the depths of dozens of rock ’n’ roll train wrecks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025

Welsh rugby plumbed new depths at their own ground, eclipsing the 68-14 Six Nations defeat by England in March.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025

As for the school: He alone knew where in Hogwarts he had stowed the Horcrux, because he alone had plumbed the deepest secrets of that place....

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

He painted bedrooms, took charge of the block’s recycling efforts and fixed countless plumbing problems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

The method begins with PVC similar to the material found in household plumbing, window structures, and even credit cards.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

With the narwhals plumbing the cold depths of the Arctic ocean, "we can sit at our warm offices and drink coffee while the data comes in," he added.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

This one responded to a price, not to plumbing, which is exactly how the market read it, and why the effect evaporated within a day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Most folks still thought a bathroom inside the house was unnecessary, expensive, maybe even unsanitary, though Aunt Pretty sighed a lot when she read about big-city houses with indoor plumbing and wringer washers and iceboxes.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney