dense
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Dense layers of carefully manipulated sound—elements that seem alienating in some electronic music—are tethered to Ms. Muldrow’s mostly improvised words to suggest the complexities of human emotion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
Dense breast tissue like Hamilton’s is a common condition shared by about 40 percent of women who get mammograms, according to the American Cancer Society.
From Slate • Feb. 4, 2026
Dense black smoke rises from the forest as we take off.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026
Dr. Maximilian Mahlein, a researcher at Fabbietti's Chair for Dense and Strange Hadronic Matter at the TUM School of Natural Sciences, adds that the findings have broader implications.
From Science Daily • Dec. 27, 2025
Dense thickets of halfdrowned trees pressed close around them, branches dripping with curtains of pale fungus.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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