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Perhaps there are investigative pieces to be done here by enterprising Timesfolk willing to plumb the depths of the surveillance they allege is being conducted by their employer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

When Emma Hayes took the reins of the women’s national soccer team in 2024, one of her first goals was to plumb the depths of the team’s talent pool.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026

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

From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2025

As is often the case when Hamilton struggles, not only does his mood plumb the depths, but the F1 rumour mill spins into overdrive.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025

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

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Words can’t really do justice to the profound musical depths Henry plumbs in this searing revival of “Ragtime,” directed by Lear deBessonet for Lincoln Center Theatre.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026

Mr. Rowlands plumbs his own most personal and treasured recollections for examples.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 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

It plumbs us by day and levels us by night.

From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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

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

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

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

The attacks damaged the operational plumbing of finance: communications networks, settlement systems, trading records, clearing banks, exchanges, brokers and the people who made them work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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

With the narwhals plumbing the cold depths of the Arctic ocean, "we can sit at our warm offices and drink coffee while the data comes in," he added.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Which, by the way, Mother’s group has never raised one red cent for me, to help put in upstairs plumbing at the Equatorial, for example.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver