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“Liveforever” becomes Caicedo’s record of how Cali made salsa its own, capturing the origins of a musical mania so profound that it is still ingrained in the city today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Its most profound impacts may well be centred around this area, with the increased risk of flooding and landslides in Peru and Ecuador and the threat of droughts and wildfires in Australia.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

That he needs this is a sign of profound weakness.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 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

I pick up the spoon with dried peanut butter, hold it out to Garrett, and he gives me a look of profound disgust.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

Within, beyond, the world of ether,—as a still profounder, still more generalised aspect of the Cosmos,—must lie, as I believe, the world of spiritual life.

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

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

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

Ruth Rendell’s favorite Austen is also “Mansfield Park,” which she calls “the fun-less one, the profoundest, the most didactic, but nevertheless the greatest.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2015

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

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