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Wearing overalls and a cap emblazoned with "Billionaire's Boys Club", he expresses profound regret over the seven years he has worked as a goon.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
"It is with profound shock and a heavy heart that I have learnt of the passing of Jayden Adams," South Africa's minister of sport, arts and culture Gayton McKenzie said, in a statement.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Childbirth presents one of the most profound evolutionary compromises.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Instead, low sentiment likely reflects a profound shift in mood since Covid struck, according to survey director Joanne Hsu.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
An important strand of the national story runs through Durham and it involves two men who had a profound effect on the movement: Douglas E. Moore and Floyd B. McKissick.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
It insists that art is not propaganda, and Ukrainians need something else from their museums, something profounder, than a restatement of what they already know.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 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
At this point Kant and Schopenhauer have had a profounder insight than Hume and Stuart Mill.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
“Archangel” is the most towering presence in “Charles Ray: Figure Ground,” opening this weekend, which introduces a new generation to America’s profoundest and most challenging sculptor — as well as its slowest.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2022
The 95-51 score against Oklahoma that ensued became the profoundest romp in all the Final Fours.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2018
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
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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