dense
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Porter's discovery is part of Aldi's $9bn US expansion plan to add 800 new stores over five years, specifically targeting dense urban hubs like Manhattan.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
He pledged to modernise the city's notoriously dense bureaucracy, and on Friday contended that his government had made progress.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
A plainspoken veteran with a dense beard and a closet full of grimy sweatshirts, Platner fit the bill.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026
Globular clusters are dense, spherical swarms of stars that remain bound together by gravity.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
He got up and headed out of the cabin and down to a cluster of trees whose thick branches touched and tangled together to make a dense overhang.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
This denser network makes the budget airline more attractive to passengers who value flexibility, which could help improve ticket revenues over time, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
The denser it is, the more dehydrated you are, generally.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
The researchers found that the resulting "avalanche network" of potential failures is approximately four times denser than the underlying physical trade network.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 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
He had set off on an easterly course, but the undergrowth had grown denser as he progressed.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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
The surrounding Westlake neighborhood, one of the densest immigrant communities in the United States, deserves quality public amenities and dignified treatment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 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 trail cut away from the lake through the densest part of the forest.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
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