profane
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Appeared in the March 24, 2026, print edition as 'The Profane President Trump'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
Profane defiance is common in queer activism, but almost always as a way of punching up.
From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2022
After four minutes, the control center radioed back “to confirm there was a collision between Profane 12 and Sumo 41?”
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2019
Profane words have a direct line to our emotions.
From Time • Sep. 13, 2016
But Statius begins badly, and sweeps the reader away too suddenly in these verses: Fraternal arms, and alternate rule by hate Profane contested, and the guilt of Thebes I sing, moved by the fiery Muse.
From An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams by Cunningham, J. V. (James Vincent)
Vocabulary lists containing profane
Romeo and Juliet
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Grade 11, List 3
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