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plumbs

verb

present tense third-person singular of plumb

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to measure the depth of (as a body of water) typically with a weighted line plumbed the bay to make sure it was deep enough for the ship

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Recent Examples of plumbs Ophelia’s Got Talent plumbs the depths of the nineteenth-century cult of Ophelia, epitomized in John Everett Millais’s famous painting of her watery death. — Caroline Lillian Schopp, Artforum, 13 May 2026 As Latifi plumbs the industry, what stands out is just how manufactured this content is, and how often the children are being manipulated to perform. — Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 13 May 2026 Maurizio Cattelan, who also wielded a banana with profound memetic effectiveness, is one of the few other artists whose work has this kind of stickiness, but his recent sculptures have leaned more on the public’s appetite for stunts, whereas Rødland plumbs more mysterious depths. — Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026 This documentary plumbs the issue in a personal, entertaining and thought-provoking way. — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026 This historical novel with relevance for today plumbs the depths of extremism. — Monitor Reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2025 With her steadfast vision and the solid craftsmanship of the clothes, Trotter plumbs still waters to conjure a universe in which control and release coexist. — Vogue, 27 Sep. 2025

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Gold mining has ravaged large parts of the Amazon that spans multiple countries, including Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia and Peru -- driven by the global rise in gold prices.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
The Just One Day series spans two books and a followup novella.

— Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2026

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Circle Garden Chives frame the quadrants of this circle garden, and a clematis scales the central trellis.

— Teresa Woodard, Midwest Living, 12 Aug. 2026
The cost is consumption-based and scales with every task the agent performs, and much of the value shows up as work that no longer needs redoing, which never appears as a line item anywhere.

— Ajay Pundhir, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

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