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How to use the word Fathom in a Sentence?

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When I saw that, in the report, I just -- my jaw dropped, it was hard enough to fathom a 2.7 year decline over 2 years overall. But then to see a 6.6 year decline for the American Indian population -- it just shows the substantial impact that the pandemic has had on that population.

Bob Anderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So it was wholly inappropriate as the most powerful man, my boss, 49 years old, i was 22, literally just out of college. And I think that the power differentials there are something that I couldn't ever fathom consequences at 22 that I understand obviously so differently at 48.

Monica Lewinsky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They left their homes and left everything behind, they can’t fathom that they’re out of Afghanistan.

Farkhunda Muhtaj

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The reality is the death rate in families is 100 %, everyone is going to die eventually, but our minds just can't fathom that.

David Kessler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I ’m watching this as their social worker. I can not fathom what they themselves are feeling and what these little boys are feeling.

Mary King

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's hard for us rural people to fathom something that big happening and as many dollars as it was.

Bart Ramsey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is hard to fathom how partially rolling back the Trump cuts to pay for the infrastructure plan will meaningfully impede business investment, there is little relationship between the effective corporate tax rate and changes in real business equipment spending. Most U.S. corporations have no trouble getting cheap capital and they pay among the lowest effective tax rates in the world.

Ryan Sweet

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

It's hard to fathom how this man thinks. It's hard to fathom, it's just outrageous, what he's doing.

Biden TransitionBiden

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We didn't fathom that it would be a situation where they would indict on charges against the neighbors and absolutely nothing on Breonna Taylor.

Breonna Taylor

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's unreal. You can't really fathom what is going on, you take what you think( you should), and you just get out.

Carolee Brown

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Arakan Army's hard to fathom that a government and its military could actually commit crimes against humanity against two different ethnic groups -- the Rohingya and Rakhine State -- in one province but somehow Myanmar has managed to do it, and now they need to be held accountable for it.

Phil Robertson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Let there be no doubt, these disasters are magnified precisely because of climate change, i can not fathom the level of cognitive dissonance required to schedule these votes one right after the other.

Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The victim is always in the place of accusing someone of something nobody else could fathom that they would ever do, her story just sounds dead on, to me.

Tami Ruckman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It was just pure disgust, something you can’t fathom seeing that.

Keondra White Facebook -RRB- White

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I can't really fathom how someone I have not personally met would do such an act of kindness and how the Noblesville community has been so generous in its response to it.

Teacher Jason Seaman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

As I’m older now, I can’t even fathom why Lorraine let me stay there, lots of times I think about, ‘Why did I do this? Why did I screw up my life like this?’ Sometimes I get angry thinking about it, how so much was taken away from me.

Judith Penney

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It is incredible in this day and age that one could even fathom that a legitimate rape victim was part of a conspiracy by a rival firm to harm Uber, sadly, these views, coupled with the scrutiny of private medical records, support rape culture and must end.

Douglas Wigdor

Found on CNN
6 years ago

At first I was heartbroken... then I got angry, i can't fathom the idea that someone can use an innocent child whom they've never met and who is going through a very hard time, how they can use that to benefit themselves.

Kelly Incandela

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I can't fathom the idea that someone can use an innocent child whom they've never met and who is going through a very hard time, how they can use that to benefit themselves.

Kelly Incandela

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I can't fathom why a person would want to do that, he was lucky I wasn't there that day.

Mike Kisting

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

As we continue our discussions with Cuba, and in anticipation of Fathom travelers being on equal footing with those who travel by air, we are accepting bookings from all travelers, including Cuba-born individuals, however, if Cuba’s decision is delayed beyond May 1, we will delay the start of our sailings.

Arnold Donald

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I don't want to hurt ever, i can't fathom the idea of being in pain and not having a way out.

Matt Fairchild

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I was referring to the hard-to-fathom $500 million in federal funding that goes to Planned Parenthood -- an organization that was callously participating in the unthinkable practice of selling fetal organs.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

With regards to women's health funding broadly, I misspoke, as there are countless community health centers, rural clinics, and other women's health organizations that need to be fully funded. They provide critical services to all, but particularly low-income women who don't have the access they need, i was referring to the hard-to-fathom $ 500 million in federal funding that goes to Planned Parenthood -- an organization that was callously participating in the unthinkable practice of selling fetal organs. Democrats and Republicans agree we absolutely must defund them and redirect those funds to other women's health organizations.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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