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profile

[proh-fahyl] / ˈproʊ faɪl /




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Regardless, the high profile claims have caused concern.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

Longer, award-winning works such as 1992’s “Nitrate Kisses” and 1995’s “Tender Fictions” — both screened at Sundance — eventually raised her profile, giving her a sense that she’d arrived.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

“The increase reflects ongoing cost inflation and additional non-mill expansion capital requirements across the portfolio, with the composition of the 500,000 oz production profile having evolved significantly over the past year,” Ord Minnett says.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Making her Broadway debut in the musical Chicago, she faced criticism that it was her profile, more than her talent, which landed her the role.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

Joon turns sideways, showing me his vulture profile.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na

Put more simply, members of the younger generation tended to have slightly older biological profiles than members of the older generation when researchers compared them at the same chronological age.

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

After a few years of glossy magazine profiles and raking in the big bucks, he was searching for meaning and unhappy with the “tragic artist” he met in the mirror.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2026

As profiles of victims emerged in subsequent months, the magnitude of the loss only deepened the country’s sadness and anger.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Nora explains to the counselor running a workplace mental health seminar that the Greeks viewed anger as a kind of insanity, but with different diagnostic profiles.

From Salon Sep. 3, 2026

Because of this, it’s unclear to me why a collection of intimate profiles or personal stories is so frequently termed a poll.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Earlier this month, the New York Times profiled the Modern Silent Shorts festival, which has annually showcased short films it commissions from select filmmakers since 2024.

From Salon Aug. 22, 2026

A few months later, the attorney said, Cancino was involved in another questionable stop, this time of a pedestrian who also later lodged a complaint alleging he was profiled.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

Looking at England's equaliser in the Euro 2024 final, the ability of individual players - profiled properly - to come up with solutions was clear.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

Charniak, 85, is one of several families profiled in the new book “Grandfamilies: Stories of Children and the Loving Relatives Who Raise Them.”

From MarketWatch Jun. 8, 2026

And she paused there, profiled to Shorty, looking at the sky.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

But activists say hundreds have been pushed across the border from Assam in recent months without due legal process, often based on ethnic profiling.

From Barron's May 29, 2026

Single cell profiling also allowed them to track which genes were active, which regions of DNA became accessible, and how those changes evolved.

From Science Daily May 21, 2026

“Hatred has no place here, and I will continue to fight against all forms of discrimination, including the racial profiling and scapegoating of Chinese Americans,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times May 13, 2026

Researchers are also exploring whether the same structural profiling method could be applied to other diseases, including Parkinson's and cancer.

From Science Daily Mar. 12, 2026

Justyce already knew about the superpredator myth—he’d stumbled upon the whole thing while trying to deal with his own profiling trauma.

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone




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