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
The wildfire that produced it drove more than 200,000 people to evacuate in July and tore through 162 square miles of dense pine forest on the Atlantic coast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Lugging packs weighing more than fifty pounds, the young men slogged across muddy rice fields and cut through dense forests.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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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
"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
A gravimeter can detect differences in density, allowing researchers to distinguish the denser surrounding rock from the much lighter buried ice.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
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
The clouds in the sky grew steadily denser, and foretold a heavy summer rain before nightfall.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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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
Eco-lodges dot the area, a destination for hikers and boaters to view one of Alaska’s densest populations of brown bears.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
We walk Sham Shui Po, once among the city’s densest working-class food neighborhoods.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
In 2020, the Dome fire decimated what was then known as the world’s densest Joshua tree forest.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
The densest tangle on the island, a mass of twisted stems, black and green and impenetrable, lay on their left and tall grass swayed before them.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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