profound change
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprofoundandchange
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profound
adjective
uk/prəˈfaʊnd/us/prəˈfaʊnd/
felt or experienced very strongly or in an ...
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change
noun
uk/tʃeɪndʒ/us/tʃeɪndʒ/
the act of becoming different, or the result of something ...
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(Definition ofprofoundandchangefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofprofound change
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Oneprofoundchangehas been the diminution of the labour union movement.
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This change in pleading was the formal expression of aprofoundchangein the legal reasoning process.
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This was a ratherprofoundchangefrom the constitution of part-whole relationships in the older style of social psychological experimentation.
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An important facet of the answer will derive from how we understand the prospect for moreprofoundchangeat the local level.
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The 1930s and 1940s were decades ofprofoundchangein the sciences of brain and mind.
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They also bear witness to theprofoundchangein approaches to this historical domain over the past twenty years.
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These writers communicate aprofoundchangein how they see themselves.
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As the writer uses the word to refer to a garage, it undergoes quite aprofoundchange.
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The conceptual relations of intrinsicality, identity, priority, and reciprocity, articulated on the propositional level, undergo, on the aesthetic level, a subtle butprofoundchange.
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Although radiation therapy has always had a strong technological focus, the last decade has seenprofoundchangeand an unprecedented increase in automation and computerisation in patient treatment.
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This is a veryprofoundchange.
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New worlds, lost worlds is an elegant and stylish account of a century of continuity andprofoundchange.
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This process was reflected in the demographic system and in the adaptive strategies of family groups faced withprofoundchangein the nature and expectations of daily life.
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I have the impression and the deep conviction that the result of these elections is aprofoundchangein the social structure of both societies.
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Can he suggest any other reason why there should be thisprofoundchangefrom the days before the last war to today?
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I suggest that any one of those characteristics would bring aboutprofoundchangein this and every other society in the world.
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Massive andprofoundchangeis already under way at local level.
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The fact is that there has been aprofoundchangein the methods of agriculture in these years.
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The patients charter has seen aprofoundchangein almost every aspect of the national health service, but the matter involves much more than that.
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