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Recent Examples of profound Ironically, when individuals who have experienced profound loss connect, there's an immediate, unspoken understanding—a shared language of loss. Rebecca Soffer, Time, 10 May 2025 For an afternoon, at least, the Church's wounds and disagreements seemed to fade away, replaced by a profound sense of communion. Christopher Hale, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025 The film spans two decades of a country in profound transformation with a new perspective into contemporary China and individual experience amid turbulent change. Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 9 May 2025 Now in its 20th year, the $50,000 award honors Saar for her profound contributions to African American art, and her decades-long commitment to exploring identity, history, and the Black experience through sculpture, installation, and mixed media. Okla Jones, Essence, 9 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for profound
Recent Examples of Synonyms for profound
Adjective
  • Before beginning the actual development work on a new construction software platform, technology providers must take the esoteric concept of empathy and put it into practice.
    Michael Pink, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Science research can be esoteric; saving someone's body or mind is not.
    Ars Staff, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • In the game, the station is in the bright sunlight, and the subway tunnel experience takes a lot longer, and isn’t quite as intense.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 5 May 2025
  • And, George, Elon Musk told reporters this week it's been a very intense 100 days.
    ABC News, ABC News, 4 May 2025
Adjective
  • Secrets of the Thrift Kidney's strategy centers on knowledge, patience, and sheer time investment.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025
  • Cyrus released the single alongside a black-and-white video that sways from footage of the singer dripping in crystals to wearing a long, classic dress and toward the end, wearing a somber black coat with sheer fabric covering her face.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • The viral dystopic show, which centers around main character Seong Gi-hun or Player 456 (Lee Jung-jae), has delighted fans since its 2021 premiere, combining classic thriller elements with a deeper exploration of the human capacity for evil and the perils of an unequal society. Surprise!
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 10 May 2025
  • Our coaches have such deep empathy for our student athletes.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 10 May 2025
Adjective
  • Ryan Murphy has found his Kennedys after an intensive casting search for the first installment of his new FX anthology series, American Love Story.
    Meredith Kile, People.com, 13 May 2025
  • The department conducts an annual review of each state, and a more intensive one that’s supposed to be completed roughly every five years.
    Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • The kind of energy that’s connected to unconditional love, truth, and spiritual expansion.
    Felicity Carter, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • Light: Growth mindset, balanced, adaptable, nurturing, unconditional love.
    Lisa Stardust, People.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The old model of fierce independence is a luxury many can't afford during this transition.
    AllBusiness, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
  • Tehran claims its program is peaceful but has threatened fierce retaliation and a possible withdrawal from the nonproliferation treaty if its nuclear sites are attacked.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • Baffert had long operated under a cloud of suspicion inside and outside of racing, thanks in part to his larger-than-life public persona and his utter domination of the competition on the racetrack – not to mention a series of other petty drug infractions in big races leading up to the 2021 Derby.
    Katie Bo Lillis, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
  • Both looked to the heavens — well, the Ball Arena rafters — in utter disbelief.
    Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 2 May 2025

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“Profound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profound. Accessed 20 May. 2025.

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