plumbed
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Even though the S&P 500’s dividend yield is on the cusp of breaking below the record low 1% it plumbed at the peak of the dot-com bubble, several stocks are at the other extreme.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
Her challenging books demand to be plumbed, debated, compared—and reread.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
A long-running survey of consumer confidence fell in November to a seven-month low and plumbed depths last reached during the covid crisis in 2020.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 25, 2025
In the intervening years, Anderson, who is 95, has plumbed the cloistered world of clock collectors.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 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
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