dense
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Earlier in the evening, she performed a brief, bright rendition of “Man I Need,” prancing in time with her band for a crowd dense with stars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Some rival studios have pushed their releases forward to avoid clashing with "GTA VI", creating an unusually dense calendar of new games.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
And he acknowledged that “the tools needed to secure the border in Big Bend are likewise different than those needed in a dense urban environment,” without explicitly condemning the project.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Freezing the liquid core, however, creates an exceptionally dense and tightly confined environment.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
She was not entirely translucent now, her black-and-white body nearly dense enough to obscure the world behind her.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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After the water cools and becomes denser, it sinks and flows southward along the ocean floor.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
The result is denser forests, more fuel on the ground, and larger, hotter fires that threaten lives, communities and the air we all breathe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The denser it is, the more dehydrated you are, generally.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 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
The clouds in the sky grew steadily denser, and foretold a heavy summer rain before nightfall.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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Eco-lodges dot the area, a destination for hikers and boaters to view one of Alaska’s densest populations of brown bears.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
We walk Sham Shui Po, once among the city’s densest working-class food neighborhoods.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Skid Row, an area in downtown Los Angeles, has the densest concentration of homeless people in the county.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Black ones hold crude oil as well as the "heaviest" or densest products like bitumen.
From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026
The earliest and most intensive food production, and the densest populations, of Greater Australia arose in the highland valleys of New Guinea at altitudes between 4,000 and 9,000 feet above sea level.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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