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Rates overall have had a profound impact on markets, and the longer rates remain elevated, and the higher they go, the greater the impact is likely to become.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
“The level of tragedy is so profound that you feel it to the core of your soul. And everybody feels the same thing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
"This kind of thinking had a profound effect on the development of the third wave of feminism and I regret none of it," he told jurors.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
And so it is in Mr. Richardson’s profound and gripping narrative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
A light shone through the keyhole and from under the door; a profound stillness pervaded the vicinity.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
The sensitive percussionist Steven Schick played the opening shimmer of bells with even profounder quiet, and there were more flickers in Kashkashian’s tone.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2022
But Jarecki seems to want more, something deeper and profounder.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 19, 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
Didactic poetry obtained in Lucretius and Virgil ampler volume and profounder meaning than in their Greek models, Empedocles and Hesiod.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
One of Craig Bartlett’s profoundest childhood memories involves a despondent turtle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Perhaps the stage of life that play can have its profoundest impact is towards the end.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2022
The cameraphone is enacting the profoundest change to our experience of art in a century — and yet we still talk about photography with language as old as the Kodak Colorsnap.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2019
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
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
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