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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
Before making this record, you stopped living with your dad, moved to a place of your own, and experienced a time of profound loneliness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
His party colleague, Carla Lockhart MP, warned of "profound" consequences if the Parade Commission's determination was not upheld.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
“An energy ceasefire would be enormously helpful because the disruption to energy infrastructure has had a profound impact on the Ukrainian economy,” said Beata Javorcik, the EBRD’s chief economist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
"Now I'm ready," he said in a voice of profound gloom.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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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
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
It is, indeed, a slumber which admits at times of strange wakings and activities; but it is also manifestly profounder than the sleep which we habitually enjoy.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
Perhaps the stage of life that play can have its profoundest impact is towards the end.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2022
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
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
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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