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profound

[pruh-found, proh‐] / prəˈfaʊnd, proʊ‐ /




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Caitlin Myers, an economist at Dartmouth College who studies abortion policy, said the deaths should be investigated: “This is a potentially profound consequence of the regulation,” she said.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

“I have profound respect for him, for the memory of his son Daniel, and for his decades-long commitment to combating antisemitism, terrorism and hatred,” Frenk said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2026

The education ministry expressed "profound sadness" in a statement on Thursday, noting that the tragedy "followed a particularly concerning series of fires in Bukavu".

From Barron's Sep. 12, 2026

What happens to a child who grows up with a parent struggling with the consequences of profound trauma, and what does it mean for the child’s well-being?

From Slate Sep. 11, 2026

Clearly, however, there is a profound difference between human and animal imagination.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

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

To Gore she was a study, of profounder interest than any book he knew.

From Mariquita A Novel by John Ayscough

“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

David Bowman would turn out to one of the most isolated people I’ve ever known—isolated on the profoundest levels by a certain traumatic displacement from ordinary human consolation.

From The New Yorker Jan. 2, 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

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

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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