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dense

[dens] / dɛns /




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Simpler motifs, like flat whistles, Bacquelé explained, are often found in tropical environments, apparently because they help the birds make themselves heard through the busy, biodiverse soundscape and dense vegetation.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

But don’t miss the point of caring so wholly in the first place — to have a human experience on this dense, fleshy plane.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

"We're dealing with a very dense stand of closely packed pines," firefighter Captain Wilfried Schneider told AFP, describing a fire of "rare" intensity.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

As air-defense networks get more dense and sophisticated, protecting the drones has become a greater obstacle than enabling them to travel far.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

She rarely went out beyond the neighborhood grocers and wasn’t used to such dense crowds.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

The result is denser forests, more fuel on the ground, and larger, hotter fires that threaten lives, communities and the air we all breathe.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

When the researchers examined participants one month later with DTI, they found signs that neural tracts were denser and showed greater integrity.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 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 route led down into a wooded valley with a chuckling stream edged with brittle ice, which the path followed for perhaps half a mile before taking us steeply up into denser woods.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

“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

Only the smallest, densest regions of the galaxy make it through these battles, leaving the poor galaxy without much fuel for its stellar nurseries — the regions where new stars are born.

From Space Scoop May 21, 2025

The state is home to what may be the densest population of black bears in the world, a growing number of gray wolves and ample mountain lions in some regions.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 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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