The phrase "able to fathom the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity to understand or comprehend something, often something complex or deep.
Example: "Few people are able to fathom the depths of the ocean's mysteries."
Alternatives: "capable of understanding the" or "able to comprehend the".
Young people, however, are not alone in not being able to fathom the distant future.
It finally bowed to pressure from investors who want to be able to fathom the company's financials and will begin making these filings in 2003.
Le Clos's disbelief was plain and he only seemed able to fathom the depth of his victory when Phelps eventually paddled across the lanes to congratulate him.
I won't understand the language going on around me, and I won't be able to fathom the simple miracle of how I came to be sitting there, but I will feel as if I belong.
'A Scalawag and a Carpetbagger' John D. Peebles, a real estate agent from Mobile, said New Yorkers might not be able to fathom the depth of conservative Southern antipathy for the Clintons.
Strangely, the more removed the mathematics becomes from what most people would be able to fathom, the more comfortable they are likely to be with its graphical representation.When Michael Field of the University of Houston showed his graphs, he introduced them as "Symmetry in Blues" or "Armies of the Night" and did not forget to mention which would be appearing in the New York Digital Salon.
I don'Theee this ending".
Fifteen years ago, you would not have been able to fathom many of the jobs that exist today.
Rather than overhaul the entire system of health insurance, the new legislation left employer-based health insurance largely intact ("If you like your health plan you can keep it"; who these satisfied customers are I've never been able to fathom) and concentrated on the market for individuals, where the worst abuses occurred.
For reasons I've never been able to fathom, bay scallops -- the little ones -- were in vogue for a while during the 70's and were actually more expensive.
But in the Democratic Party, few seem to be able to fathom she won't run.
