fathoming
Example Sentences
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Climate change is what philosopher Timothy Morton calls a hyperobject: something that so massively occupies space and time that our puny primate brains have trouble fathoming them.
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2025
Now, though some of the references have become more obscure with time, it’s hard to imagine anyone not fathoming the play’s gist.
From New York Times • May 7, 2021
They are like the proverbial worker who knows how to use a hammer and thus sees everything as a nail—not fathoming the existence of other tools.
From Scientific American • Jun. 8, 2020
Never once did it have to do the hard work of fathoming an unfathomable score.
From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2017
The vacant eyes in the faded face of the mother were fathoming distances remote from the four walls of the slatternly room.
From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph
