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Noting both the profound sadness and farcical tragedy ahead “if those who are gifted stay silent,” Lillian Smith in 1951 hoped for a better future.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

“No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

“It is with profound grief that we confirm the passing of Katherine Hartley Short,” the statement read.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

By comparison, “Sheep in the Box” feels thin and strangely scattershot in its approach to a drama that ought to have profound implications.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

The growing spatial mismatch of jobs had a profound impact on African Americans trapped in ghettos.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

Another picture that struck me with even profounder admiration than before was Titian's Charles V on horseback.

From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle

The cameraphone is enacting the profoundest change to our experience of art in a century — and yet we still talk about photography with language as old as the Kodak Colorsnap.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2019

Not only had one of the longest, profoundest stories in sports found its loftiest chapter, but women’s tennis had found its finest Open era player.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 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

And it is the new sense of the emergent individual that I think may be the profoundest change of all.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2013

I watched with the profoundest satisfaction as five days of grime ran down my legs and out the drainhole, and noticed with astonished gratitude that my body had taken on a noticeably svelter profile.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson