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[proh-fahyl] / ˈproʊ faɪl /




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"The profile of the players Newcastle signed in the summer, and it may well bear fruit in time...they went very young and relatively inexperienced," adds Smith.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

In an apparent attempt to drum up excitement ahead of Sunday’s game against the San Francisco 49ers, the Falcons’ social media platforms unveiled a new profile pic that featured elements from the team’s throwback helmet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

A 2007 Sports Illustrated profile confirmed that Manning owned the Tennessee retreat at that time.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Lander later said the Israeli military released him with a warning because of his public profile.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Instead of allowing each officer to rely on his or her own limited experience and biases in detecting suspicious behavior, a drug-courier profile affords every officer the advantage of the agency’s collective experience and expertise.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Its heads, Katz and David Fenkel, keep remarkably low profiles for studio chiefs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Reams of magazine profiles spotlight everyday people choosing to share their lives with an AI boyfriend, girlfriend or spouse.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

The researchers compared several groove shapes, including narrow channels with square profiles and longer channels with curved bottoms.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

The profiles of those in, and on the margins of, the protests are as varied as their demands.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

They raised wet lips at Ralph, for they seemed provided with not quite enough skin, so that their profiles were blurred and their mouths pulled open.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

"Our recording captured a clear, permanent mark distinguishing the two very first cells, letting us trace nearly every cell we profiled from the embryo back to one or the other," said Kim.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Earlier this month, the New York Times profiled the Modern Silent Shorts festival, which has annually showcased short films it commissions from select filmmakers since 2024.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026

A 2025 Wired article entitled “Your Next Pet Could Be a Glowing Rabbit” profiled a Texas company seeking to create gene-edited pets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Looking at England's equaliser in the Euro 2024 final, the ability of individual players - profiled properly - to come up with solutions was clear.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

He gets invited on news shows and profiled in magazines, and he has been the subject of a documentary by the filmmaker Errol Morris, all because of a brain that appears to defy description.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

“Many Hindu families in Ohio live with fear—fear of ICE raids, profiling based on accent or appearance and the constant anxiety of family separation,” Pyakurel wrote.

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026

The forensic department at Oklahoma State University then took over genealogy profiling, according to Rouse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Future approaches could include personalized treatment plans based on immune profiling of individual wounds.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

They had not been charged because profiling and documentation were still under way before the deaths, he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

The movement regularly holds protests against police killings of African Americans and against such issues as racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler


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