plumb
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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
The bit remains frustratingly shallow, when there’s so much opportunity to plumb what it means to seek solace in smoothies and faux spirituality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026
Or maybe we’ll plumb new depths of dysfunction in the coming year.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2025
The 30-year-old set the tone early with a full delivery in his first over that had Young trapped plumb in front.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2025
“Do not let things get to you, Jane. Do not give in to your rage,” she’d always say, her voice full of warning and a knowledge I was afraid to plumb.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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Mr. Rowlands plumbs his own most personal and treasured recollections for examples.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
According to Spence, the Fourth Symphony is “bombast,” while the fifth is filled with romance and the sixth plumbs sorrow.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2023
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
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
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
Labour is trailing in the polls and the prime minister's personal ratings have plumbed the depths.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
Her challenging books demand to be plumbed, debated, compared—and reread.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
“It isn’t a proper holiday until we’ve plumbed every available sewer.”
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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Military on the Lincoln are reportedly contending with food shortages, broken plumbing and exhaustion, according to two US publications that cover the military - the Military Times and Stars & Stripes.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The conditions have reportedly included poor sanitation, infrequent ports-of-call, broken plumbing, exhaustion and shortages of fresh food.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Blumenthal voiced concern for such extended deployments, noting "widespread reports of shortages of basic supplies, water contamination, plumbing issues, deteriorating mental health, deck safety concerns" and other problems aboard the Lincoln.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
I grew up in eastern Kentucky and attended grade school in a four-room schoolhouse without indoor plumbing that had a potbelly stove for heat in the winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Our shack—like most shacks throughout Alexandra—had no heat, electricity or plumbing, and we had no stove, so my mother had to keep the brazier indoors, as she had done all previous winters.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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