dense
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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
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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
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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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