dense
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The movie projects contempt for the dense from its first frame, sharing a montage of recent pop culture as a stentorian narrator worries that modern conveniences have perverted the concept of survival of the fittest.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
For fusion to continue successfully, the plasma must remain hot, dense, and stable.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
While the Nigerian navy has increased maritime security operations, the military and other security agencies have carried out operations against oil thieves, who often hid out in the area's dense mangrove forests.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
“It is really dense and obtuse but I think it is rewarding and I hope people take up the challenge,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The wind dies down and gives way to a thick, dense, gold-colored fog.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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"Local ice is more economical, but Kuramoto Ice is clearer, denser and melts more slowly," co-owner Yong Wei told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Although there is little scientific evidence, it's said the technique also results in a colder, denser product that will cool rather than dilute a cocktail.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Analysts see room for King Slide to capture a bigger share of AI infrastructure spending as cloud providers adopt custom chips, liquid cooling and denser hardware.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Earth is much denser still, averaging 5.5 grams per cubic centimeter.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 27, 2026
All those are direct ways in which plant and animal domestication led to denser human populations by yielding more food than did the hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Trace that hazy glow toward its densest region, and you will be looking in the direction of the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
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
Black ones hold crude oil as well as the "heaviest" or densest products like bitumen.
From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026
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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