fathoming
Example Sentences
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Climate change is what philosopher Timothy Morton calls a hyperobject: something that so massively occupies space and time that our puny primate brains have trouble fathoming them.
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2025
Now, though some of the references have become more obscure with time, it’s hard to imagine anyone not fathoming the play’s gist.
From New York Times • May 7, 2021
They are like the proverbial worker who knows how to use a hammer and thus sees everything as a nail—not fathoming the existence of other tools.
From Scientific American • Jun. 8, 2020
Cheng brought mystery to the “Desert” Chorus and an unforgiving light to the “Day” Chorus, conveying the lure of the land, without a sense of which there is no fathoming the Middle East.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2017
No one who heard them would suspect that the men were watching, weighing, and fathoming each other with all the nicety at individual command.
From Mystery Ranch by Chapman, Arthur
