profoundly

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for profoundly
Adverb
  • Named after its founder—the world’s richest woman and an heir to the Walmart fortune—the school will train students over the next four years in a radically different way from the method most traditional medical schools use.
    Alice Park, Time, 21 July 2025
  • Having entered London’s High Court yesterday, UK actors union Equity and casting platform Spotlight will now have to wait weeks for a decision over a landmark case that could radically alter the landscape for how British actors obtain work.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 17 July 2025
Adverb
  • It’s been a long, brutal, wildly partisan, and wholly unlikely slog to get here, but Shari Redstone finally gets to preserve her family fortune by selling her patrimony, the media empire laboriously assembled by father Sumner, for about $8.5 billion and goodness knows how much cortisol and angst.
    David Bloom, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
  • An invitation to fight forward against erasure, to integrate my culture and my country together, wholly.
    Natalie Guerrero July 28, Literary Hub, 28 July 2025
Adverb
  • But a new box set, chronicling the creation of Five Leaves Left, offers a glimpse into the real Drake — the living, breathing musician who was incredibly gifted, utterly charming, and ahead of his time.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2025
  • Wimpy was a mild-mannered, soft-spoken, lazy, parsimonious, and utterly gluttonous hamburger-wolfing straight man to Popeye.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2025
Adverb
  • Many of America’s boardrooms have shown themselves to be remarkably slow and stubborn in transforming themselves into an active and high-performing digital and cybersecurity governance control capable of overseeing the opportunities and risks of the digital future.
    Bob Zukis, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
  • The heat dome is the result of a remarkably large ridge of high pressure that has been stalling over the region.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 28 July 2025
Adverb
  • Gorgeous fresh fruits and veggies themselves are absolutely worthy of display, like using carrots in a vase as part of a centerpiece, or a gorgeous radish as a table flourish.
    Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 July 2025
  • The behavior displayed is nothing short of cruel and absolutely unacceptable ...
    Aaron Valdez, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 July 2025
Adverb
  • Imagine the naïve mind of a 16-yer old being manipulated by the devious, nefarious, and exceptionally skillful political strategists who are backed by countless billions of bucks.
    Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
  • What is exceptionally unique about Joel’s oeuvre is that, where most of the rest of rock ‘n roll draws on the blues for its fuel, his work is powered so heavily by European classical music.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 18 July 2025
Adverb
  • The farm also runs partly on solar power and processes olives entirely onsite, emphasizing freshness and control.
    Esha Chhabra, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
  • The highest-grossing film of the previous year — in fact, the highest-grossing film for the next decade — revolved entirely around a kid wanting a phone.
    Jeremy Dauber, HollywoodReporter, 31 July 2025
Adverb
  • It’s coated in a thin layer of real gold – not just to look fancy, but because gold reflects infrared light extremely well.
    Adi Foord, Space.com, 26 July 2025
  • The Jacksonville Jaguars made an extremely aggressive move in the 2025 NFL Draft.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 July 2025
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“Profoundly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profoundly. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.

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