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
Under the dense foliage, soldiers on the ground work in what looks like a pumpkin patch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
In the foreground: the dense, ferny undergrowth of a forest, bordered by a few gnarled tree trunks rising upward.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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Robinson said combining its global multimodal platform with RXO’s North American brokerage, expedited and last-mile capabilities will allow the combined company to provide a more tailored offering for customers across a larger and denser network.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The researchers also pressurized the gas to create a denser stream of CO2, allowing the instrument to obtain usable measurements from much smaller quantities of fossil material.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
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
Although there is little scientific evidence, it's said the technique also results in a colder, denser product that will cool rather than dilute a cocktail.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 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
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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
We walk Sham Shui Po, once among the city’s densest working-class food neighborhoods.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
“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
The New Guinea highlands supported some of the densest populations of Stone Age people anywhere in the modern world.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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