plumbed

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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

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

Welsh rugby plumbed new depths at their own ground, eclipsing the 68-14 Six Nations defeat by England in March.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025

A long-running survey of consumer confidence fell in November to a seven-month low and plumbed depths last reached during the covid crisis in 2020.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 25, 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