profound transformation

collocation in English

meaningsofprofoundandtransformation

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profound
adjective
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/prəˈfaʊnd/us
/prəˈfaʊnd/
felt or experienced very strongly or in an ...
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transformation
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌtræns.fəˈmeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌtræns.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃən/
a complete change in the appearance or character of something or someone, especially so that that thing or person ...
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(Definition ofprofoundandtransformationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The prolonging of women's spinsterhood with higher education and a profession emerges here as an expression of similar control in circumstances and conditions that underwentprofoundtransformation.
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Although that particular door is one we never see, her passage through it marks aprofoundtransformation for the character, for the drama, and for society.
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While the change over a short interval of time might look relatively minute, the cumulative change added up to aprofoundtransformation.
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In particular, success in securing such contracts often required helping companies to achieve a moreprofoundtransformationof how they operate and not just an incremental improvement.
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Later in the novel, she undergoes aprofoundtransformation, both physically and psychologically.
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Using what he observed, he decided to make aprofoundtransformationin his technique and practice.
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Significant buildings include a handful from the city's first decades (18681920) and a larger number from the period ofprofoundtransformationbetween the world wars (19201940).
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It was adopted partly in response to theprofoundtransformationof the international community brought about by the decolonization process.
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A far moreprofoundtransformationfollowed with the arrival of the railways, beginning in the late 1830s.
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The central theme of these empirical studies is that the growth of the aggregated product of the country necessarily implies aprofoundtransformationof the whole of its economic structure.
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Since its emergence at the beginning of the eighteenth century, this concept has undergone a number of modifications and even profound transformations as part of various explanatory theories in chemistry.
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