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dense

[dens] / dɛns /




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The lab at the centre of an ongoing court case was discovered in a dense forested area of the West African nation.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

He now lives on Indian Creek island behind dense hedges that prevent even his wealthy neighbors from peering into his estate—the only home like that on the island, one club member said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

At the time, rescuers said he was in a "very isolated and hard-to-access mountain area" and the weather conditions were extremely severe with strong winds, heavy snowfall, and dense fog.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

The feature is usually linked to dense gas absorbing photons in the atmospheres of stars that are a few hundred million years old.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

Caputo quickly moved his men out of the open space and under the dense forest canopy.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

After the water cools and becomes denser, it sinks and flows southward along the ocean floor.

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 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

Without frequent fire to clear out the understory of a forest, California woodlands have grown five to six times denser.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

Moreover, the discovery of the microwave radiation by Penzias and Wilson in 1965 also indicated that the universe must have been much denser in the past.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

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

"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

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

The foragers were there before us and they brought about dramatic changes even in the densest jungles and the most desolate wildernesses.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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