dense
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Its dense outer layer was harder and more durable than the bones of many other animals available in the region, allowing it to withstand repeated impacts.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
But don’t miss the point of caring so wholly in the first place — to have a human experience on this dense, fleshy plane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
As air-defense networks get more dense and sophisticated, protecting the drones has become a greater obstacle than enabling them to travel far.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
She points to boroughs such as Islington, where high poverty, limited green space, expensive housing and dense populations contribute to particularly low child populations.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
I left the concrete path and shimmied through an opening in the dense bushes that led to deeper green—tall elm, fir, and birch standing together.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
That stronger clustering might also appear to explain observations suggesting that the Universe contains denser structures than predicted.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 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
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
As they picked their way through denser underbrush, a twig snapped off to one side.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
Black ones hold crude oil as well as the "heaviest" or densest products like bitumen.
From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026
The area, not far from Black Rock Campground, is one of the park’s densest Joshua tree woodlands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
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
Image: The densest cluster of supermassive black holes identified in the Universe.
From Space Scoop ● Jul. 4, 2025
Those areas also came to support the densest populations of European settlers in modern Australia.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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