dense
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The cloudless skies made every pop-up an adventure and the warm, dense air reduced drag, allowing batted balls to travel farther.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
The forest at Tanjil Bren was dense mountain ash regrowth from the 1939 fires.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
Neutron stars are extremely dense stellar remnants left behind after massive stars reach the ends of their lives.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
But in the 1960s, she fused her mandala-faces and landscapes into dense, mysterious worlds—relief-like frontal fields in which deities, animals and foliage, woven together, blossom and interchange between figure and ground.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The wind dies down and gives way to a thick, dense, gold-colored fog.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Robinson said combining its global multimodal platform with RXO’s North American brokerage, expedited and last-mile capabilities will allow the combined company to provide a more tailored offering for customers across a larger and denser network.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The researchers also pressurized the gas to create a denser stream of CO2, allowing the instrument to obtain usable measurements from much smaller quantities of fossil material.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
The Times: Why did you oppose Senate Bill 79, which requires cities to allow taller, denser buildings near transit stops?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 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 small group came into view from the denser pines by the rock.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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
Black ones hold crude oil as well as the "heaviest" or densest products like bitumen.
From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026
Those areas also came to support the densest populations of European settlers in modern Australia.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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