dense
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It is also a beautiful book, complete with notes, photographs and a chronology to guide readers through the dense entanglements of expatriate Paris and the particulars of the bullfighting arena.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Most of these vessels are purse seiners or trawlers, which deploy vast nets to capture dense schools of fish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
It forms because the air high above the Pole becomes extremely cold and dense in winter.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
For several days this summer the Albanian city of Elbasan choked in a dense cloud of stinging smoke coming from the direction of its notorious steelworks.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
That dense blah, gray feeling was interfering with his thought processes.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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Robinson said combining its global multimodal platform with RXO’s North American brokerage, expedited and last-mile capabilities will allow the combined company to provide a more tailored offering for customers across a larger and denser network.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The Times: Why did you oppose Senate Bill 79, which requires cities to allow taller, denser buildings near transit stops?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Although there is little scientific evidence, it's said the technique also results in a colder, denser product that will cool rather than dilute a cocktail.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Their work produced an unusual observation: diamond became denser when it melted.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Then, around the corner, gliding noiselessly, came dementors, ten or more of them, visible because they were of a denser darkness than their surroundings, with their black cloaks and their scabbed and rotting hands.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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Trace that hazy glow toward its densest region, and you will be looking in the direction of the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
We walk Sham Shui Po, once among the city’s densest working-class food neighborhoods.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Black ones hold crude oil as well as the "heaviest" or densest products like bitumen.
From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026
Neighboring Djibouti is home to the densest cluster of foreign military bases in the world—including from the U.S.,
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
The New Guinea highlands supported some of the densest populations of Stone Age people anywhere in the modern world.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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