fathoming

Fulks is right: It is unfathomable, although pregnant women across red America have certainly spent the last year and a half fathoming it.

“If we’d gone back 40 years ago, if we go back to 1980 when I was a kid,” he said — “in 1980, you could not dream of the internet economy. You could not fathom it. So what are we not fathoming that could happen within 10 to 15 years from now?”

While James is a good-looking, good-natured young man, he's rather lost when it comes to fathoming the way Pünd can unravel mysteries.

I truly have a hard time fathoming that.

My suggestion: “They should start fathoming.”