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profound

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




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While some of these ideas may be profoundly relatable — and thus, personally meaningful — that doesn’t make the observations or their executions within Schoenbrun’s feeble film profound in and of themselves.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2026

We may be under-modeling one of the most profound possibilities in front of us: that people live significantly longer, healthier and more active lives than prior generations imagined.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

Michael says that James, now 34, has "never developed the capacity to engage with the world. That's the source of profound sadness to his family and a loss to himself."

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

The naughty language can’t cover up the lack of a more profound explanation.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Unfortunately, their argument depends on a profound misunderstanding of Hobbes’s text.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

It also results in the profounder album of the two.

From Washington Times Apr. 4, 2018

“And it’s having a much profounder effect than I conceived could happen.”

From New York Times Sep. 3, 2011

He deserves such tributes, but there is a profounder, truer explanation for the wonder he excites.

From The Guardian Jul. 17, 2010

Or, as Frank notes while dealing with a particularly difficult couple in Independence Day, “a profounder text runs beneath all realty decisions.”

From Newsweek

Secrecy is most generally adopted to cover objectionable designs; and, the profounder the former is, the more objectionable are the latter.

From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger

“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

Ruth Rendell’s favorite Austen is also “Mansfield Park,” which she calls “the fun-less one, the profoundest, the most didactic, but nevertheless the greatest.”

From Washington Post Dec. 2, 2015

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




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