profound
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“The level of tragedy is so profound that you feel it to the core of your soul. And everybody feels the same thing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
"The energy levels predicted by these theories are important because they encode profound information about the theories themselves," Alicea says.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
The MoJ said that while domestic abuse had a "profound and lasting" impact on victims, the government was committed to keeping the most dangerous prisoners behind bars.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
The Copernicus Ocean State Report depicts profound changes across the world's seas, from record-breaking heatwaves in the Mediterranean and Black seas to shifts in marine ecosystems and increasingly acidic waters.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
And after she’d read it a third time, all she could get out was a profound “Wow.”
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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The sensitive percussionist Steven Schick played the opening shimmer of bells with even profounder quiet, and there were more flickers in Kashkashian’s tone.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 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
Enough, if every day I gain a profounder knowledge of my defects, and a more certain method of turning them to a good direction.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
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
David Bowman would turn out to one of the most isolated people I’ve ever known—isolated on the profoundest levels by a certain traumatic displacement from ordinary human consolation.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 2, 2019
The 95-51 score against Oklahoma that ensued became the profoundest romp in all the Final Fours.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2018
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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