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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of profound.

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  • I have come to think, more recently, that bittersweet experiences can be particularly profounded, with their added dimensions, depth and nuance. by

    Politics and Positive Psychology; Reconciling and Integrating Them 2006

  • He may have just thought of this as a clever turn of phrase, but that is a profounded loaded statement.

    The Fat Panic, Health, and Proportionality 2006

  • In addition to simple statistic analysis, it will also be very interesting and rewarding to look into more profounded interactions, such as the elasticity of player number to subscription price, or to server population.

    How big is YOUR server? 2005

  • I waited for the last wavelet to fade away, but when the surface was once more still and smooth as dark glass, I began to be affected by the profounded silence and melancholy of nature, and by a something proceeding from nature -- phantom, emanation, essence, I know not what.

    A Crystal Age 1881

  • At the precise moment when his ungainly person came under the observation of the scout, in the manner just mentioned, the woodsman himself, though in his assumed character, was the subject of the solitary being's profounded reflections.

    The Last of the Mohicans 1826

  • At the precise moment when his ungainly person came under the observation of the scout, in the manner just mentioned, the woodsman himself, though in his assumed character, was the subject of the solitary being's profounded reflections.

    The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • September 18th, 2009 7: 31 pm ET if wilson thoght it was so profounded of him he would have went on air and said i was out of lineand i apologize to the americainpeople for my rude outburst but instead he did the opposite and said look how much money i have raised for mycampaign i donot understand why people do not think for themselves, they let hear say do their thinking and miguided people who have hate im their heart.

    Wilson says he's the 'number one target' of attack 2009

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