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[dens] / dɛns /




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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

Instead of being powered by the nuclear fusion that fuels ordinary stars, the object may consist of an extremely dense cloud of gas energized by a black hole at its center.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

The east side of the fire — located in dense wilderness — is most active and firefighters are trying to find safe ways to get it under control, officials said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

It was a lush and mysterious landscape, a dense wood of dizzyingly tall fir trees that covered the rolling mountains like a living blanket of green.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

Now, many local leaders want to see them bulldozed to make way for new, denser housing—igniting an outcry on the edge of unbroken wilderness.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

A new state law that allows denser housing development near major transit stops goes into effect in July, opening the door to construction of more than 1 million new units in California’s urban centers.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 9, 2026

The sinuous channels, stacked polar plates and other evidence suggest that Mars once had such a denser atmosphere.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

"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

They needed to protect the structural integrity of the skyscraper, which sits on top of the city’s rail lines, so it wouldn’t collapse in the middle of America’s densest office district.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 17, 2025

The densest tangle on the island, a mass of twisted stems, black and green and impenetrable, lay on their left and tall grass swayed before them.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding




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