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profane

[pruh-feyn, proh-] / prəˈfeɪn, proʊ- /




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On a never-ending feed we watch the cute and profane, sleepwalking toward an emotional state beyond shock as entertainment: the banality of passive consumption.

From Slate • May 12, 2026

Under the First Amendment, anyone in the U.S. has the right to engage in peaceful protest, which can include yelling, using profane language, videotaping officers and following them in a car, legal experts say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

The Church saw vinum clarum as a profane wine, and its consumption was not imbued with Christian symbolism, nor attached to any table ceremony.

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2024

He’s at home with the sacred and the profane.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023

It seems profane somehow—the world clean, the air warm—when scores of young men lay cold in their coffins, waiting to return to the earth.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir




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