How to Use deep structure in a Sentence

deep structure

noun
  • But deep structures of wealth and power do often matter.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Safran describes the show’s deep structure as a comedy of manners.
    — New York Times, 7 July 2021
  • Yet in its deep structure, the show is about her own dignity and the difficulty of being both a discerning mind and a desiring body.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2019
  • But none of those applications get to the deep structure of biology—likely a beacon of future creativity.
    — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Multiplicative sequences are related to deep structures in number theory.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2015
  • As a portrait of the deepest structures of American violence, Loaded is an indispensable book.
    — Patrick Blanchfield, New Republic, 11 Dec. 2017
  • How can diversity and inclusion become an enterprise that extends past token gestures into the deep structure of the institution?
    — New York Times, 21 May 2021
  • The full faith and credit of the United States rest not on this or that grudgingly passed statute, but on a much deeper structure of consensus and cooperation, both political and social.
    — Charles Lane, Alaska Dispatch News, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Also missing was money for replacement of the Industrial Canal lock at the Mississippi River with a deeper structure.
    — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 12 Feb. 2018
  • With the exception of inside linebacker, and possibly cornerback, the two-deep structure has snapped together cleanly during lopsided victories over Akron and Rutgers.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Over the generations, physicists have oscillated between self-assurance and skepticism, periodically giving up on ever finding the deep structure of nature and downgrading physics to the search for scraps of useful knowledge.
    — George Musser, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2019
  • High-quality recordings from the human brain, particularly from deep structures that current devices cannot safely access, are extraordinarily rare and extraordinarily valuable.
    — Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Early in her restless, inventive career, Elizabeth Phelps was trying to understand the deep structure of memory by showing word lists to people with amnesia — patients who’d survived a brain injury or stroke but lost the ability to remember.
    — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2014

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