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Or maybe we’ll plumb new depths of dysfunction in the coming year.

From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2025

She had focused on romance stories about Navy SEALs but realized she was trying too hard to plumb an unfamiliar topic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

The songs on Del Real’s first solo album — the title yet to be revealed — plumb the depths of silence and sonic expansion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025

In effect, the complaint here invites the Journal’s lawyer to use interrogatories and depositions to plumb the entire relationship between the two men.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 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

He plumbs the lives of the family of William Henry Seward, one of the most consequential political men of pre-Civil War America, with a searching eye to the texture of their emotional world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

D’Angelo asks that question — worries it, caresses it, plumbs its unseen depths — no fewer than two dozen times in what might have been his signature hit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025

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 Pinkney, Lt-Col.

Right now, only some of the dancers in each of the two casts I saw plumbed the ballet’s depths.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

For proof of the formula’s resilience, look no further than the success of VH1’s “Behind the Music” series, which plumbed the depths of dozens of rock ’n’ roll train wrecks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025

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

Bunce joked that at least Joshua's fight with Paul still retains at least a semblance of credibility given boxers have plumbed to even further depths at times.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 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

Zoe, who lives in North Oxford, is now debt-free and completing a plumbing apprenticeship.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

Steve Henson grew up in small-town Nebraska, made his way to California and left for Alaska to be a plumbing contractor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

As well as Mulan Build and 38fix, there is Diandian Home Solution, an all-women plumbing and furniture assembly service operating in the southern cities of Guangzhou and Kunming.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

However, when Duhamel first purchased the property, he admitted that it was in a very rustic state, telling Country Living in April 2025 that the cabin didn’t have plumbing for many years.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026

Everyone got a vacation and little repairs to the plumbing and the walls could be made.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck