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[dens] / dɛns /




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Porter's discovery is part of Aldi's $9bn US expansion plan to add 800 new stores over five years, specifically targeting dense urban hubs like Manhattan.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

These dense stellar remnants are the leftover cores of Sun like stars that have exhausted their fuel and collapsed to only about 1% of their original size.

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

A plainspoken veteran with a dense beard and a closet full of grimy sweatshirts, Platner fit the bill.

From Slate Jul. 8, 2026

This is a dense book, packing in a great deal of thought and argument.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

Most of the Ho Chi Minh Trail was covered with dense forest, making it hard to hit from the air.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

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

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

This allows much denser vertical connections, smaller distances between layers, and alignment accuracy measured in nanometers.

From Science Daily May 30, 2026

The Trinamool Congress retained a denser grassroots network and the charismatic dominance of Banerjee.

From BBC May 4, 2026

In Florence, however, Galileo’s disciple Torricelli heard in 1643 of Berti’s experiments and realized that he could simplify matters by using a denser liquid.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

“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 surrounding Westlake neighborhood, one of the densest immigrant communities in the United States, deserves quality public amenities and dignified treatment.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 22, 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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