profound
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She said the experience had had a "profound impact" on her.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
That he needs this is a sign of profound weakness.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
While early journal entries chronicle profound uncertainties regarding viral origins and transmission dynamics, public mandates were treated as absolute, unquestionable truths.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
Some of it is profound and other bits are rambling and nonsensical, but it is considered a sweet gesture by almost everyone in attendance.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
But Jarecki seems to want more, something deeper and profounder.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 19, 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
In his "Comedies of Words," Arthur Schnitzler, the great Austrian Dramatist, has penetrated to newer and profounder regions of human psychology.
From More Portmanteau Plays by Stuart Walker
It is, also, some of the profoundest art made anywhere in Europe in the past 60 years.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
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
He added, “I’m trying in my poetry to investigate the profoundest difficulties of acceptance that I can find.”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 15, 2016
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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