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Childbirth presents one of the most profound evolutionary compromises.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

Under the veil of the Manhattan Project, this remote mesa became the site of a profound scientific pivot that ended a world war and ushered in the nuclear age.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

"While the pardon does not claim she was innocent of killing David Blakely, it replaces the death penalty with a sentence of life imprisonment to recognise a profound injustice in this exceptional case," he added.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

In those early days of television, it became the biggest show in the country, and certain people hovering around those who were perpetrating these witch hunts had a lingering, profound effect on the nation’s future.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

The whole approach of Vesalius to his subject was, if not exactly revolutionary, a profound step forward from what had gone before.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

It insists that art is not propaganda, and Ukrainians need something else from their museums, something profounder, than a restatement of what they already know.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022

It also results in the profounder album of the two.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 4, 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

Within, beyond, the world of ether,—as a still profounder, still more generalised aspect of the Cosmos,—must lie, as I believe, the world of spiritual life.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

Photography’s profoundest limitation is its mechanistic nature, which can bind it to a literalness and a brittle understanding of time.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2021

They represent the nation’s id, or, in the profoundest sense, its underclass, and Marxists and Freudians alike will have years of fun with this movie.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 22, 2019

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

If you've never tasted Milton, try Dylan Thomas as Satan declaiming: "Hail horrors, hail infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new Possessor" from Paradise Lost.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2012

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