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What is clear is just how profound the stakes are for the U.S. and China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
“Words cannot begin to express the profound sorrow I feel that a service we designed to bring people happiness and joy has been abused to cause harm.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Resigning from his post in August, he added: "The relentless accusations, speculation and public commentary have taken a profound toll on me and those I love."
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
“There’s no question AI represents a profound shift in both technology and business,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote in the presentation deck.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
But for President Johnson, it was a profound personal and political failure.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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
In a profounder sense, Paine was George Fox.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway
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
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
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