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"Victims can lose life savings in a matter of hours and be left with damaged homes, financial hardship and a profound sense of vulnerability long after the criminals have gone," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
"What drew me to Alzheimer's research is the combination of its profound human impact and its extraordinary biological complexity," he said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
The African Union Commission chairman expressed his "profound sorrow over the tragic loss of life" in a statement.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
Pillay has left a profound mark on international law over a multidecade legal career, the committee said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
I pulled into the driveway and was surprised at the profound disrepair; this was a poor family's home.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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
At the same time Paul has other thoughts of a profounder and more permanent value.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover
He quotes Nietzsche saying, “The profoundest mind must also be the most frivolous one.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
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
That might sound painfully earnest, but the Greeks understood that our profoundest pleasures aren’t superficial.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2017
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
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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