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profound

[pruh-faund, proh-] / prəˈfaʊnd, proʊ- /




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Our best data about this profound shift comes from Anthropic, which recently published a chart showing how much of its AI research and development is being done by AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

The experience is profound for reasons other than pure spatial and tactical wonder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

"This temporal window holds profound significance, as attaining such early detection would substantially augment the probability of cure and improved survival," highlight the researchers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

But its declining correlation with the stock market is a profound development, and AI may very well accelerate it.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026

“Yeah,” June said, like Ivy had said something profound.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

The sensitive percussionist Steven Schick played the opening shimmer of bells with even profounder quiet, and there were more flickers in Kashkashian’s tone.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2022

But Jarecki seems to want more, something deeper and profounder.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 19, 2018

It isn't elitist to think that Four Quartets is chewier, profounder and more artful than If or The Song of Hiawatha: it is simply common sense.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2011

Or, as Frank notes while dealing with a particularly difficult couple in Independence Day, “a profounder text runs beneath all realty decisions.”

From Newsweek

Didactic poetry obtained in Lucretius and Virgil ampler volume and profounder meaning than in their Greek models, Empedocles and Hesiod.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar

“Archangel” is the most towering presence in “Charles Ray: Figure Ground,” opening this weekend, which introduces a new generation to America’s profoundest and most challenging sculptor — as well as its slowest.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2022

That might sound painfully earnest, but the Greeks understood that our profoundest pleasures aren’t superficial.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2017

He added, “I’m trying in my poetry to investigate the profoundest difficulties of acceptance that I can find.”

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 15, 2016

Ruth Rendell’s favorite Austen is also “Mansfield Park,” which she calls “the fun-less one, the profoundest, the most didactic, but nevertheless the greatest.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2015

It was an odd manuscript; in the midst of the profoundest personal tragedy, sinking into economic ruin, he wrote brilliantly funny columns.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin


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