dense
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The unique pull of Silicon Valley, and its unrivaled density of AI workers, companies and investors, has kept the money rolling in despite California’s dense thicket of regulations and uncertainty about the proposed billionaire tax.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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
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
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
He stalked into the dense woods, drawing his hood low over his one glowing eye.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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After the water cools and becomes denser, it sinks and flows southward along the ocean floor.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
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
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
Aristotelians also held that solids are denser and heavier than liquids.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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We walk Sham Shui Po, once among the city’s densest working-class food neighborhoods.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
In 2020, the Dome fire decimated what was then known as the world’s densest Joshua tree forest.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 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
“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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