as in crowded
having little space between items or parts
a sterile subdivision with serried rows of cookie-cutter houses
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Recent Examples of serried
In lieu of the usual venue of the Dolby Theatre, where nominees and their guests sit elbow to elbow in serried ranks, this year’s edition was held in Los Angeles’s cavernous Union Station.
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2021
The Emergency Operations Center is a large, bright room, with serried rows of wooden desks facing a wall of video screens.
—Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
No one had lined us up in serried, uniform ranks, no one had demanded an oath or a membership—or anything more than the spirit of DIY.
—Jonathan Myerson, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2020
In the vegetable garden, Burch gleefully points out the serried ranks of okra, eggplant, beans, peppers, kale, cucumber, and cantaloupe.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2018
There is certainly something extreme about the serried carcasses, blackened by blow torches to burn off the fur, the faces charred in a rictus grin.
—The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
Inspectors unwrapped them and found serried rows of bottles.
—Michael Powell, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2021
The Emergency Operations Center is a large, bright room, with serried rows of wooden desks facing a wall of video screens.
—Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
No one had lined us up in serried, uniform ranks, no one had demanded an oath or a membership—or anything more than the spirit of DIY.
—Jonathan Myerson, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2020
In the vegetable garden, Burch gleefully points out the serried ranks of okra, eggplant, beans, peppers, kale, cucumber, and cantaloupe.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2018
There is certainly something extreme about the serried carcasses, blackened by blow torches to burn off the fur, the faces charred in a rictus grin.
—The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
Inspectors unwrapped them and found serried rows of bottles.
—Michael Powell, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for serried
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The 124th Running of The Dinner Party Stakes A crowded field turned toward the final stretch of the 1 1/8-mile turf run, the last race before the evening’s main event, before Fort Washington pulled away with Cash Equity surging.—
Taylor Lyons,
Baltimore Sun,
17 May 2025
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Instead of calling bringing employees back into crowded offices, the administration should be using telework as a way to close the budget shortfall, said Service Employees International Union Local 1000, in a Thursday statement.—
William Melhado,
Sacbee.com,
16 May 2025
Adjective
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Andrew Weitz — a style consultant and men’s fashion expert who steers a firm called The Weitz Effect — recently fielded a call from a client with a packed European itinerary on the horizon.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2025
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The lunch was part of a packed schedule for the president, who is currently touring the Middle East.—
Laya Neelakandan,
CNBC,
14 May 2025
Adjective
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La Jolla Walk-In Campsite The La Jolla Walk-In Campsite is a small campground in dense chaparral in Point Mugu State Park in the Santa Monica Mountains.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2025
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The explosion in new construction projects was also allowed by the fact that the Austin city government has made building new apartments easier in recent years, rewriting zoning laws, cutting parking requirements, and encouraging dense, walkable development.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 May 2025
Adjective
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The younger Cave, with a mop of jet black hair and thick eyebrows just like his father, is talking to The Hollywood Reporter about being directed by Kristen Stewart in her feature film debut.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2025
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At the opposite end of the court, a thick layer of melancholy was present.—
Kelly Iko,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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Autonomous vehicle technology has been hard to commercialize, with tight regulations and heavy investments forcing many companies to give up.—
Akash Sriram,
USA Today,
22 May 2025
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But there are also plenty of tight binary systems, where the stars orbit each other at a radius that would place them both comfortably inside our Solar System.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
22 May 2025
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“Serried.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/serried. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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