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  • verb Present participle of fathom.

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  • It famously, complicatedly blends art and commerce, and perhaps the highest compliment one can pay a designer is to say that he or she understands the customer: a good part of the art lies in fathoming her mood, her desires, and her ambitions, and the ways these may shift from season to season and year to year and evolve as she ages.

    Fashion in Dark Times 2009

  • It famously, complicatedly blends art and commerce, and perhaps the highest compliment one can pay a designer is to say that he or she understands the customer: a good part of the art lies in fathoming her mood, her desires, and her ambitions, and the ways these may shift from season to season and year to year and evolve as she ages.

    Fashion in Dark Times 2009

  • It famously, complicatedly blends art and commerce, and perhaps the highest compliment one can pay a designer is to say that he or she understands the customer: a good part of the art lies in fathoming her mood, her desires, and her ambitions, and the ways these may shift from season to season and year to year and evolve as she ages.

    Fashion in Dark Times 2009

  • One work of the Yerkes telescope (which is done by Dr. Lee and Professor Van Biesbroeck) and of some of these large reflectors is the determination of the distances of the fixed stars, which is the first step in fathoming the depths and dimensions of our universe.

    Photographing the Sky 1920

  • Foundation president Tim Wirth, who served in both the House and Senate, said he is still working on "fathoming" the administration's environmental agenda.

    Environmental community shifts focus away from Washington with 'think local' strategies Juliet Eilperin 2010

  • Foundation president Tim Wirth, who served in both the House and Senate, said he is still working on "fathoming" the administration's environmental agenda.

    Environmental community shifts focus away from Washington with 'think local' strategies Juliet Eilperin 2010

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  • Why people still destroy the very essence of hamburgerdom by cookiing hamburger meat to the consistency of cardboard is beyond fathoming.

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  • We as viewers don't require full knowledge of the Osiris mysteries to appreciate that in Barney's DJED we're fathoming the inevitable entropy that marks our own future demise as a civilization.

    G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011

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