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Example sentences for: fathom

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Prudie, frankly, cannot fathom how you've decided that "There you go" is code for "Get the hell out."
The Post said it was "difficult to fathom why the US seems slavishly attached to a policy [toward Iraq], built upon 'containment' and UN inspections, that is doomed to failure," when it should be supporting this "viable democratic alternative to Saddam" as "a strategic and moral imperative."
Feel the texture of a hand offered in greeting and try to fathom the “Jamaican handshake,” a ritual whose rules seem to be more complex than those of the game of cricket.
Disagreements on the left are far more ingrained--and more meaningful--than he seems to fathom.
We who are in control of the media and therefore aware of the context in which unclear English is used, know what's going on (and therefore the meanings of the utterances used to describe it), while the vulgar (to use Berkeley's delightful expression for those with a shaky grasp of vocabulary and syntax who are therefore ill equipped to understand some particular bit of newspeak) are led to believe, when they fail to fathom what's going on, that the failure in comprehension is entirely their fault.