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"Christa is dealing with the profound psychological trauma of having survived a failed execution, including the terror, pain and uncertainty of believing she was about to die," her legal team said.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
“The Tehama County Sheriff’s Office recognizes the profound impact this tragedy has had on the families of those who lost their lives, the survivors, and the community,” the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
“Fjord” is breathtaking cinema in more ways than one, both urgent filmmaking and a profound comment on our times.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
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
Despite the huge divide now between Johnson and King, it was a profound loss shared by the two men.
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
For, in the precedence of study of other sciences more remote from man’s “business and bosom,” there has been rendered possible a more dispassionate treatment of matters charged with profounder issues.
From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Edward Clodd
One of Craig Bartlett’s profoundest childhood memories involves a despondent turtle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
He quotes Nietzsche saying, “The profoundest mind must also be the most frivolous one.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
Photography’s profoundest limitation is its mechanistic nature, which can bind it to a literalness and a brittle understanding of time.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2021
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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