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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

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

Liam Dawson was trapped plumb in front and Ryan Higgins dollied a catch to backward point as Spirit's batters tried and failed to get to grips with the top T20 wicket-taker of all time.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025

The only one whose emotions I couldn’t plumb was Desdemona.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Dickinson plumbs this trope of grief, but uses it to reveal the nature of art itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

See how she measures and plumbs her lines!

From The Shadow World by Hamlin Garland

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

Her challenging books demand to be plumbed, debated, compared—and reread.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 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

Design specifications required that every building be surrounded by an underwater main and be plumbed with interior standpipes.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

"Then we apply those techniques to these explosive eruptions, and we are able to reconstruct the plumbing system with an unprecedented precision."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

He painted bedrooms, took charge of the block’s recycling efforts and fixed countless plumbing problems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Owing to incorrect plumbing, affected households pump waste into surface drains, which can then spread, killing wildlife and damaging waterways.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

I’d gotten awfully spoiled at Aunt Ivy and Uncle Holt’s with their indoor plumbing.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson