dense
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Lee then focused on graduating early, packing his remaining coursework into two dense semesters — taking seven classes during one of them.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
Analysts say China's robotics push could follow a similar path as its global EV success, with local players using manufacturing prowess, dense supplier networks and rapid product development to establish an early lead.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Most of the fragment consists of cortical bone, the thick and dense tissue that forms the hard outer layer of bones.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
Legislators representing red and blue districts alike and from dense urban neighborhoods, suburbs and rural communities recognize that while opportunities for outdoor play differ by location, the need for daily movement doesn’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
It is particularly dense in the area where my wheels connect.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
This denser network makes the budget airline more attractive to passengers who value flexibility, which could help improve ticket revenues over time, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Earth is much denser still, averaging 5.5 grams per cubic centimeter.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 27, 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
The com itself seemed to shield her as she ran through it, impossibly growing taller, denser, reaching outward and upward, alive, alive, whispering for her to run, run, not to stop, never to stop.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
“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
"You have the second densest country in the world, that has virtually uncongested streets," Harvard economist Edward Glaeser said of the city-state.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
Image: The densest cluster of supermassive black holes identified in the Universe.
From Space Scoop ● Jul. 4, 2025
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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