plumb

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

Over nine months last year, the groups of artists met monthly on Zoom — “six countries and seven time zones,” says Rozental — along with therapists, scholars and others to plumb the topic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 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

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

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

In every hedge we passed were medlars, plumbs, cherries, and maples with vines trained to them.

From Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by Lt-Col. Pinkney

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

Under Amorim, United have plumbed depths that should not be possible the way football's finances are arranged these days.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 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

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

The attacks damaged the operational plumbing of finance: communications networks, settlement systems, trading records, clearing banks, exchanges, brokers and the people who made them work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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

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

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