dense
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At the time, rescuers said he was in a "very isolated and hard-to-access mountain area" and the weather conditions were extremely severe with strong winds, heavy snowfall, and dense fog.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
He now lives on Indian Creek island behind dense hedges that prevent even his wealthy neighbors from peering into his estate—the only home like that on the island, one club member said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Canine teams also have been used in the search through steep canyons and dense vegetation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The simulations suggested that the red source could contain an extremely powerful energy source hidden inside a very dense cocoon of hydrogen.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
In the marshy ground where the stream met the lake she found dense patches of sedge.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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This denser network makes the budget airline more attractive to passengers who value flexibility, which could help improve ticket revenues over time, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
The denser it is, the more dehydrated you are, generally.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
The researchers found that the resulting "avalanche network" of potential failures is approximately four times denser than the underlying physical trade network.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026
Fellow economists Marina Gertsberg, Ekaterina Volkova and I found that the disgraced financier effectively wired corporate America into a denser, more tightly interconnected network.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
Aristotle took the view that harder substances are denser and heavier than softer substances; it followed that ice is heavier than water.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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We walk Sham Shui Po, once among the city’s densest working-class food neighborhoods.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
“Compassion,” the preacher proclaimed, is “mercy in action,” adding: “I can also show you one small rhetorical tweak that guarantees even your densest congregant won’t miss the point.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Black ones hold crude oil as well as the "heaviest" or densest products like bitumen.
From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026
"You have the second densest country in the world, that has virtually uncongested streets," Harvard economist Edward Glaeser said of the city-state.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
The foragers were there before us and they brought about dramatic changes even in the densest jungles and the most desolate wildernesses.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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