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profundity

[pruh-fuhn-di-tee] / prəˈfʌn dɪ ti /


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Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto let a day’s stroll linger into profundity, the twilight dimming and human connection brewing in all its possibilities.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2026

And while Andy, Miranda, Nigel and Emily are written and performed with as much profundity as they are in the first film, each of their arcs feels like a progression, rather than simple repetition.

From Salon May 1, 2026

Part of the beauty and profundity of people’s psychedelic experiences is the ineffable—but the systems that run on Western science are hungry for hard data, replicable and reliable outcomes, and, perhaps most importantly, profit.

From Slate Jan. 30, 2026

It also carries with it a sort of readymade profundity.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 11, 2025

He rocked back and forth on his heavy heels, his face wise with profundity.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

For those, to put it more generously, pulled in by the simple pleasures and crystalline profundities of the text.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

The domineering Sarastro, an all-powerful priest, bellows spiritual profundities.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

And there’s a high risk of sentimentality here: the precious Messiah child mewing his little Whitmanesque profundities at us about the unity of all life.

From Washington Post Sep. 21, 2021

But “Ad Astra” is more concerned with its protagonist’s inner life than the magnificent starscape outside his spacecraft, and long stretches pass with only Pitt onscreen, his voice-over pondering life’s profundities.

From New York Times Sep. 4, 2019

For in the state in which you find yourself it is very difficult, not to say impossible, to fathom all the profundities of the spirit and scrutinize all of its hiding-places.

From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Palacio Vald?s, Armando




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