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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

The 30-year-old set the tone early with a full delivery in his first over that had Young trapped plumb in front.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2025

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

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

In “Empire of Ashes,” he plumbs survivors’ heartbreaking accounts, bringing readers to the rubble of atomic ruins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Each chapter of “Unreliable Narrator” plumbs one of Nancherla’s many emotional pain points.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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

When full upon his ardent soul The champion feels the influence roll, He swims the lake, he leaps the wall, Heeds not the depth, nor plumbs the fall.

From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 by Charlotte Mary Yonge

There are, in fact, very few places where the 21st century intrudes, save for a flat screen TV or two and the kitchen’s plumbed, built-in Miele coffee system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Even though the S&P 500’s dividend yield is on the cusp of breaking below the record low 1% it plumbed at the peak of the dot-com bubble, several stocks are at the other extreme.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Labour is trailing in the polls and the prime minister's personal ratings have plumbed the depths.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 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

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

“The action strikes at the plumbing of Iran’s external commerce,” said Mustapha Pakzad, a former Iranian financial intermediary who used the bank in the past to help Iranian clients pay for goods.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The investment bankers who want to be really rich go into private equity instead, where they end up running plumbing companies in Mississippi.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 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

The method begins with PVC similar to the material found in household plumbing, window structures, and even credit cards.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

Ever since, we’ve had nothing but plumbing and electrical problems.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman