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He said the incident had had a profound effect on the local community.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

The machine patted me on the head by noting that I had avoided words like profound and tapestry and only once indulged in telling all of you “Here’s the thing.”

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

“It is with profound sadness that we must share that our beloved father, grandfather, uncle, and brother Robert Carradine has passed away,” the Carradine family said in a statement following the actor’s death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

But the luminous interior, designed by a man of such profound piety that he was known as “God’s architect,” compels awe even in those devoid of religious belief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

In Sweden, the people I met were equally interested and responsive, even though they hadn't experienced profound need or shared struggle with an abusive justice system.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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

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

Nay, this profounder condition, as responding to more primitive, more fundamental needs, will itself be more primitive than the waking state.

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

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

Matilda Joslyn Gage, in her treatise Woman, Church and State, hailed this local herb-woman as “the profoundest thinker, the most advanced scientist” of her age.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2018

Not only had one of the longest, profoundest stories in sports found its loftiest chapter, but women’s tennis had found its finest Open era player.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2017

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

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