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plumb

[pluhm] / plʌm /




plumb
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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

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

In effect, the complaint here invites the Journal’s lawyer to use interrogatories and depositions to plumb the entire relationship between the two men.

From Slate Jul. 23, 2025

My eyes must have goggled plumb out my head.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

Russo is a good guy, yes, and one for whom we root, but in his effort to protect his daughter, he plumbs seemingly bottomless depths of humiliation.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 12, 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

Add the plumbs again, boil together for a few minutes, and can.

From Science in the Kitchen. by Kellogg, Mrs. E. E.

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

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

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

From BBC Apr. 22, 2026

“It isn’t a proper holiday until we’ve plumbed every available sewer.”

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

Zoe, who lives in North Oxford, is now debt-free and completing a plumbing apprenticeship.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

As well as Mulan Build and 38fix, there is Diandian Home Solution, an all-women plumbing and furniture assembly service operating in the southern cities of Guangzhou and Kunming.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

In that project, the developer created more than 1,300 apartments after cutting new light wells and extensively rebuilding the interior to accommodate residential plumbing, mechanical systems and floor layouts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

However, when Duhamel first purchased the property, he admitted that it was in a very rustic state, telling Country Living in April 2025 that the cabin didn’t have plumbing for many years.

From MarketWatch Jul. 1, 2026

We listened to his stories of life in the city, enthralled by his tales of the modern conveniences like indoor plumbing and streetcars, things we could scarcely imagine.

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




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