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[proh-fahyl] / ˈproʊ faɪl /




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Spurred on by a friend, who suggested that she should advertise a female-only group trip on her anonymous social media profile, Bridget soon found herself overwhelmed by hundreds of inquiries.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

A 2025 profile on Bumper by local publication Edible Monterey Bay credits him with transforming “an unpopular heat-and-serve lunch program into a from-scratch operation” that featured locally grown produce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

“We’re actually going back to a profile that we used very successfully for over a decade to grow this business.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Besides often keeping a low profile and maintaining an unremarkable wardrobe, Dangote sometimes drives himself, without the long security convoys associated with many Nigerian elites.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

“You look like the effigy of a young knight asleep on his tomb,” she said, carefully tracing the well-cut profile defined against the dark stone.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Click on the tickers for more about each company, including corporate profiles, analysts’ ratings and consensus price targets.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Reams of magazine profiles spotlight everyday people choosing to share their lives with an AI boyfriend, girlfriend or spouse.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

Its heads, Katz and David Fenkel, keep remarkably low profiles for studio chiefs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The researchers compared several groove shapes, including narrow channels with square profiles and longer channels with curved bottoms.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

He snipped away at the black paper, then separated the two thicknesses and pasted the profiles on a card and handed them to me.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

“The analysts give us all of the information, where it’s going, what it is, why they profiled it,” said police officer Alejandro Gutierrez.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

"Our recording captured a clear, permanent mark distinguishing the two very first cells, letting us trace nearly every cell we profiled from the embryo back to one or the other," said Kim.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Short already was profiled in the 2026 Netflix documentary “Marty, Life Is Short,” nominated for three Emmys in its own right.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

“I was in love with the frisson of transgression,” said Anna, one of the disillusioned former believers profiled in Sam Adler-Bell’s March 2026 investigation “The women leaving the new right.”

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

Twenty feet from us stood a figure, straight, motionless, profiled, the scarlet hieb and white shirt an inlay of bright enamel against the green of the high grass.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

“Many Hindu families in Ohio live with fear—fear of ICE raids, profiling based on accent or appearance and the constant anxiety of family separation,” Pyakurel wrote.

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026

In early 2024, a bone sample was sent to DNA Labs International for genealogy profiling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

They had not been charged because profiling and documentation were still under way before the deaths, he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

Nearly all of the cases alleging racial profiling in drug-law enforcement were brought pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its implementing regulations.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander


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