plumb
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Ben Duckett: A quiet Test in which he made only 15 and burned a review despite being plumb lbw.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Perhaps there are investigative pieces to be done here by enterprising Timesfolk willing to plumb the depths of the surveillance they allege is being conducted by their employer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 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
I felt my red skin was going to scald plumb off, and then I’d look just like that poor antelope.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Russo is a good guy, yes, and one for whom we root, but in his effort to protect his daughter, he plumbs seemingly bottomless depths of humiliation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
“When she sings about love, Omara plumbs the depths of heartbreak, and I could not imagine telling her story without seeing her singing these great songs.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 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
"Sweet spungy plumbs on trees wide spreading hang, The happy flavour'd pine grows crested from the ground."
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Philip Freneau
Small wonder Tom Stoppard plumbed Herzen’s writing for his theatrical trilogy, “Coast of Utopia.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Her 2022 debut novel, “Aesthetica,” plumbed the lengths one aged-out influencer is willing to go to reverse her cosmetic surgeries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
The Indian currency has plumbed a series of new lows versus its U.S. counterpart over the past months, crossing the key psychological level of 90 on Wednesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 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
Major mechanical, electrical and plumbing items ended up running about $500 million above an initial $200 million estimate in 2022, well ahead of what inflation could explain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 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
Her arc mirrored that of my Mexican immigrant parents, who were also mountain people who grew up in big farming families with no plumbing or electricity, snuggling with siblings during winter nights in unheated bedrooms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The company saw gains in its plumbing, kitchen and gardening sections.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
I must let them fall untouched, and suffer the bitter salt upon my lips, plumbing the depths of humiliation.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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