dense
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He now lives on Indian Creek island behind dense hedges that prevent even his wealthy neighbors from peering into his estate—the only home like that on the island, one club member said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Canine teams also have been used in the search through steep canyons and dense vegetation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Instead of being powered by the nuclear fusion that fuels ordinary stars, the object may consist of an extremely dense cloud of gas energized by a black hole at its center.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
By blocking some of that radiation, the dense clumps also shield material located behind them.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 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
That stronger clustering might also appear to explain observations suggesting that the Universe contains denser structures than predicted.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 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
A new state law that allows denser housing development near major transit stops goes into effect in July, opening the door to construction of more than 1 million new units in California’s urban centers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Instead, one part of the explanation for farmer power lies in the much denser populations that food production could support: ten naked farmers certainly would have an advantage over one naked hunter-gatherer in a fight.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
We walk Sham Shui Po, once among the city’s densest working-class food neighborhoods.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
“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
"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
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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