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profound

[pruh-found, proh‐] / prəˈfaʊnd, proʊ‐ /




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If muonium responds to gravity differently from ordinary matter, the implications could be profound.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

They believe what they are creating each day holds the possibility of profound danger and disruption, including loss of life.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Some influential voices believe the impact of their models on society will be so profound that it will fundamentally affect the ability of governments to raise taxes, especially on work.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

“This morning, just after midnight, we lost our darling son and brother James, in a motor accident. We respectfully ask for privacy as a family, as we process this profound loss,” the post read.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 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

It also results in the profounder album of the two.

From Washington Times Apr. 4, 2018

He deserves such tributes, but there is a profounder, truer explanation for the wonder he excites.

From The Guardian Jul. 17, 2010

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

“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

Perhaps the stage of life that play can have its profoundest impact is towards the end.

From BBC Jan. 12, 2022

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

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

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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