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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a fathom" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used as a unit of measurement for depth, especially in nautical contexts, or metaphorically to indicate understanding or comprehension.
Example: "The diver descended to a depth of twenty fathoms to explore the shipwreck."
Alternatives: "a depth" or "a measure".
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Try converting a fathom to a "mark twain," an erg to a kilojoule, or a lentor to a stoke.
Not a fathom of the emotional depths sounded in the play's first half is sounded here, and there has some to be point of connection.
Long again from Djokovic, going for a return winner and missing it by a nautical mile or possibly a fathom, whichever is bigger.
At the time, Mr. Harryhausen was an unheralded animator whose most recent film, "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" (1953), had been made on a shoestring budget of $200,000, just $10 a fathom.
After lunch, Elisa and I set off for a walk with Sally Spaulding, a Fathom contributor who now does PR for Windstar.
The hope is these customers will be enticed by free offerings to later pay for something, perhaps even a semester-long course, says Anne Rollow, a Fathom vice president.
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The accompanying chutneys are good, the sambar is a fathoms-deep flavour bomb.
The book was born as an investigation into her death and, through that, a fathoming of the dark urgings that almost did for Lott himself.
Most can't for a moment fathom that scenario playing out.
A rake is lowered to the bottom in a few feet or a few fathoms of water.
It is hard for most of us to fathom a business with a mark-up of 650 per cent.
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