plumb
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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
As is often the case when Hamilton struggles, not only does his mood plumb the depths, but the F1 rumour mill spins into overdrive.
From BBC • Aug. 3, 2025
The only children whose genders she hadn’t divined were her own, because it was bad luck for a mother to plumb the mysteries of her own womb.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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