dense
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In his eyes, beauty takes all forms, morphing into the grotesque and outrageous before transforming again into a light, airy meringue, generously portioned atop life’s dense realities.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
An outer buffer that slows wildfires by thinning dense trees, clearing dead brush, and breaking up continuous vegetation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
According to the Big Bang theory, the Universe began expanding from an extraordinarily hot, dense state approximately 13.8 billion years ago.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
"Clearing trees and dense bramble, followed by annual cutting and raking, is helping to restore these open habitats and the flowers and insects that depend on them", the trust added.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
The sky is a dense and impenetrable black, and the stars are out tonight in full brightness.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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ChangXin Memory Technologies recently announced progress in its efforts to make denser chips.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
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
All those are direct ways in which plant and animal domestication led to denser human populations by yielding more food than did the hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Krasner’s small, tight accretions of repetitive marks and shapes seem airless and uninflected; even the densest of Pollock’s early, layered pours pulse and breathe, his touch liberated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
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
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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