dense
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Visions of light, fields of talking flowers, moving patterns, and dense waves of dots would surround and consume her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Some rival studios have pushed their releases forward to avoid clashing with "GTA VI", creating an unusually dense calendar of new games.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
On the way to their destination, they turn onto a two-lane road that seems to stretch on forever, with the way they came now blocked by dense forest.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Freezing the liquid core, however, creates an exceptionally dense and tightly confined environment.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
Its land slopes upward, along the rise of a hill, covered in dense clusters of evergreen trees.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
The denser it is, the more dehydrated you are, generally.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
The researchers found that the resulting "avalanche network" of potential failures is approximately four times denser than the underlying physical trade network.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 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
The small talk was of the microscopic variety, and although it was good to be with her family, never had the barrier between them felt denser.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
We walk Sham Shui Po, once among the city’s densest working-class food neighborhoods.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Skid Row, an area in downtown Los Angeles, has the densest concentration of homeless people in the county.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 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
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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