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  • adjective comparative form of dense: more dense

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Examples

  • Land prices are by far the largest component of construction costs in denser places, so “high costs of supplying housing” is perfectly consistent with the conclusion that housing in dense areas is more valuable and desirable.

    Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie 2010

  • Land prices are by far the largest component of construction costs in denser places,

    Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie 2010

  • A study released last summer by CEOs for Cities found that homes in denser, more walkable communities commanded premiums as high as $30,000 in cities like Charlotte, Chicago, and Sacramento.

    Matthew Yglesias » All Planning is Planning 2010

  • A study released last summer by CEOs for Cities found that homes in denser, more walkable communities commanded premiums as high as $30,000 in cities like Charlotte, Chicago, and Sacramento.

    Matthew Yglesias » All Planning is Planning 2010

  • A study released last summer by CEOs for Cities found that homes in denser, more walkable communities commanded premiums as high as $30,000 in cities like Charlotte, Chicago, and Sacramento.

    Requiem for the Suburbs Revue « PubliCola 2010

  • It is, of course, even harder to do in denser areas, which is why NY and Chicago are easy to single out.

    Matthew Yglesias » Yes They Can 2008

  • It is true that the code is 'denser' - that is, more functionality in less typed space - and consequently a user might spend more time working on fewer lines of code, but we are betting that the number of failure modalities is smaller (fewer ways to mess up); and there's less code 'real estate' to observe and comprehend.

    MSDN Blogs martinca 2009

  • But if it is secreted in a body and is denser, that is, less rare, we get a hurricane.

    Meteorology 2002

  • And the bigger the secret, the denser was the silence surrounding it.

    Stones from the River Ursula Hegi 1994

  • And the bigger the secret, the denser was the silence surrounding it.

    Stones from the River Ursula Hegi 1994

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