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Nor is he required to plumb the depths of his father’s trauma from his time in the army.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 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

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

Still, the Underdowns insisted that our mission last no more than one year—not enough time for going plumb crazy but only partway, I guess, even if things went poorly.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

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 was as easy to take three as one, and the three plumbs were taken and put into his pocket.

From The Bad Family & Other Stories by E. (Eliza) Fenwick

Japan, which imports most of its energy, is facing a double whammy of the higher oil prices that affect everyone and even higher prices in yen terms as the currency plumbed new depths.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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

While new depths now appear to have been plumbed, the question of why some more wasn't known or discovered before his appointment will not go away.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 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

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

Before they moved to Nashville, though, the brothers grew up helping out with their dad’s plumbing business in the late 1990s in the small fishing town of Deale, Md.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Keane said the problem was at least partly down to misconnections, where plumbing from housing developments is wrongly linked to surface water drains rather than sewers, sending untreated waste into waterways.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

“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

The indoor plumbing we had once taken for granted now was an unattainable luxury.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson