dense
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Its forces maintain a dense, layered and daily presence unmatched by any other nation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Their ability to move through dense material also makes neutrinos valuable messengers from otherwise inaccessible regions of the universe.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
While higher energies make it easier to create the hot, dense conditions needed for quark-gluon plasma, lower-energy experiments may be more useful for determining precisely when those conditions are no longer sufficient.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
The Short-Necked Oil Beetle are dependent on solitary bees for its lifecycle and need a particular habitat to survive, with thick vegetation for shelter and dense flower coverage both essential.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 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
They can be seen each year when the Earth passes through a denser clump of the comet’s debris during its orbit around the sun, Thompson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
A few copped to skimming one or two of the denser books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
ChangXin Memory Technologies recently announced progress in its efforts to make denser chips.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 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
As I took a step back, the floor rolled beneath me, and the air grew denser, stifling.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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
Black ones hold crude oil as well as the "heaviest" or densest products like bitumen.
From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026
It’s a shame, because MacArthur Park is the backyard for one of the densest neighborhoods in the United States, a modern-day Lower East Side of immigrants and their children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
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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