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That decision may yet have a profound impact on the destination of the title.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
“So all of these things are having really profound ripple effects. This is a situation where you really are seeing crystallized the need for bio preparedness.”
From Salon • May 11, 2026
Yet we close our eyes to arguably America’s most profound hallucinatory artist when we need him the most.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
For Wall Street Journal readers, the takeaways from their first jobs range from the mundane to the profound, from small lessons to ones that guided them for decades to come.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
These long millennia may well have witnessed wars and revolutions, ecstatic religious movements, profound philosophical theories, incomparable artistic masterpieces.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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Essential Academic Vocabulary for High School Students, List 1
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"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
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