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Discover LudwigThe phrase "dense as a" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe someone or something that is perceived as lacking intelligence or being slow to understand. Example: "He can be dense as a brick when it comes to picking up social cues."
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The carugi are bordered by buildings dense as a palimpsest.
She was a tiny thing but dense as a bulldog".
Again, the cloud as dense as a London pea-soup fog in the 1950s.
Another train goes past, carrying a heavy rattle inside it, dense as a migraine.
The river looked peaceful and felt dense as a velvet coat.
In a scant 14 pages, Davies has created a family thicket as dense as a dictionary.
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"It would be too wearing on the reader too repetitious and dense, as would, for instance, a lengthy narrative poem written in the style of a lyric poem.
"It would be too wearing on the reader — too repetitious and dense, as would, for instance, a lengthy narrative poem written in the style of a lyric poem.
The next step was to test whether the Zera-Xyl-accumulating organelles were dense, as has been described for a variety of Zera fusions [19], [25], [29].
Thus, they concluded that the earlier gold-gold collisions had produced very dense matter -- 30 to 50 times as dense as an ordinary nucleus -- that blocked the second jet.
Updike (needless to say) puts it more beautifully: "Always, until now, it had been too much, bigger than all systems, an empyrean as absolute as those first boyish orgasms, when his hand would make his soul pass through a bliss as dense as an ingot of gold.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com