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Recent Examples of profoundly
Teen mental health is profoundly complex and cannot be linked to a single app.
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Yi-Jin Yu, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2026
Even Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine did not disrupt oil supplies as profoundly as the market first feared — although the conflict itself remains ongoing.
—Camila Domonoske, NPR, 27 Mar. 2026
Generations of families built lives there, shaped its identity and contributed profoundly to the cultural fabric of Palm Beach County.
—Danita R. Dehaney, Sun Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2026
And Alexander Hamilton gets slightly better press than the other two, but he is shown as someone who is brilliant, but self-seeking, arrogant, snobbish, contemptuous of others, and profoundly two-faced.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
Each president profoundly changed American health.
—Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
That trust was profoundly violated.
—Vaughan Bagley, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2026
IUDs are more than 99% effective at preventing pregnancy and can profoundly change a life — allowing someone to complete school, pursue a career, or leave an unsafe relationship without having to worry about a pregnancy.
—Maryl Sackeim, STAT, 20 Mar. 2026
Day trips are great, but for a profoundly enriching experience, communities offer farm stays and village homestays.
—Jasmine Ting, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2026
Yi-Jin Yu, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2026
Even Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine did not disrupt oil supplies as profoundly as the market first feared — although the conflict itself remains ongoing.
—Camila Domonoske, NPR, 27 Mar. 2026
Generations of families built lives there, shaped its identity and contributed profoundly to the cultural fabric of Palm Beach County.
—Danita R. Dehaney, Sun Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2026
And Alexander Hamilton gets slightly better press than the other two, but he is shown as someone who is brilliant, but self-seeking, arrogant, snobbish, contemptuous of others, and profoundly two-faced.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
Each president profoundly changed American health.
—Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
That trust was profoundly violated.
—Vaughan Bagley, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2026
IUDs are more than 99% effective at preventing pregnancy and can profoundly change a life — allowing someone to complete school, pursue a career, or leave an unsafe relationship without having to worry about a pregnancy.
—Maryl Sackeim, STAT, 20 Mar. 2026
Day trips are great, but for a profoundly enriching experience, communities offer farm stays and village homestays.
—Jasmine Ting, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for profoundly
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Harris, a Democrat, is once again running for Congress in Georgia's 14th District, a deeply conservative region represented by Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned in January this year.—
Brian Unger,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Attempts to resolve ecological responsibility through strict localism often risk sliding into cultural provincialism or nationalist enclosure—fantasies of purity that ignore how deeply entangled our lives already are.—
Manuela Moscoso,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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The cosmos has three possible geometries—positively curved like a sphere, flat like an infinite plane or negatively curved like a saddle—but geometry alone doesn’t determine shape.—
Paul M. Sutter,
Scientific American,
27 Mar. 2026
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Although state legislative races rarely get the national spotlight, Democrats across the country were positively euphoric at the irony of their Republican nemesis being represented by one of their own.—
BILL BARROW,
Arkansas Online,
26 Mar. 2026
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According to Pinto, both views are radically wrong.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
29 Mar. 2026
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While peers like Coco Chanel or Christian Dior made clothing that was radically simple or effusively beautiful, Schiaparelli embraced what was surprising, in bad taste or even revolting (a pair of 1938 monkey fur boots, for example).—
Rachel Tashjian,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2026
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The strong middle of the season helps The Testaments overcome its repetitive and mechanical beginnings, building to a shocking (if not wholly earned) penultimate episode — that’s then undone by a return to the Handmaid’s Tale Redux predictability of the finale.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Apr. 2026
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By 2024, Pascal was no longer involved, Jason Bateman was added, and the creative direction shifted to a wholly original idea.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
2 Apr. 2026
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The very notion of national unity in a time of war seems utterly beyond this president, who follows his capricious instincts and continues, as ever, to spray venom at domestic opponents (and, for that matter, allies) when they are needed to wage and win the war.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2026
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Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect.—
Ashlee Conour,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Only a geeky, witty male pal (Jon Cryer) sees her worth, until one day, quite remarkably, rich-kid McCarthy takes an interest.—
Duane Byrge,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Mar. 2026
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In the context of the federal health budget, that investment is remarkably modest.—
Nicole Kruegel,
Sun Sentinel,
31 Mar. 2026
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Those undeserving objects of their contempt absolutely ought to be afforded such minimal dividing space.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
29 Mar. 2026
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But if your current option is overpriced cable or slower DSL, 5G home internet is absolutely worth considering.—
Ken Colburn,
AZCentral.com,
29 Mar. 2026
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With a peppy MediaTek Dimensity 9400+ processor, this unit handles all kinds of Android apps with aplomb, benchmarking exceptionally across all of our tests.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
27 Mar. 2026
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Absent those resources, any push onto the Iranian mainland would be exceptionally difficult and likely come with high casualties, and would likely demand a significantly larger force, the experts said.—
Chris Boccia,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Profoundly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profoundly. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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