dense
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Data centre developers are particularly attracted to London because of the capital's dense concentration of businesses, financial services and internet connections.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
But wildfires have burned several of these areas in recent years, including dense woodlands near Covington Flats and Black Rock Campground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Neutron stars are extremely dense stellar remnants left behind after massive stars reach the ends of their lives.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
But in the 1960s, she fused her mandala-faces and landscapes into dense, mysterious worlds—relief-like frontal fields in which deities, animals and foliage, woven together, blossom and interchange between figure and ground.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
"Glad all my stories sunk into that dense head of yours."
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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
The researchers are particularly interested in whether the Stickney impact created a concentrated region of denser material beneath the crater.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
"Local ice is more economical, but Kuramoto Ice is clearer, denser and melts more slowly," co-owner Yong Wei told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Analysts see room for King Slide to capture a bigger share of AI infrastructure spending as cloud providers adopt custom chips, liquid cooling and denser hardware.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Her voice was a whisper, as if she could startle the water and it would rush off into the denser bush, leaving us behind.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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
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
Black ones hold crude oil as well as the "heaviest" or densest products like bitumen.
From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026
“As you know,” he said, trying his best to turn his guts and spine into the hardest and densest of wood.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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