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as in center
a place or environment that favors the development of something
suspected that the elite private universities were a nest of antigovernment sentiments
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as in hideout
a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others
headed back to her cozy nest in the mountains for a little rest and relaxation
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Recent Examples of nest
Bald eagles Jackie and Shadow have spent the past week incubating three precious eggs in their Southern California nest.
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Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 4 Feb. 2025
The back-to-back deaths of two beloved bald eagle siblings stunned the thousands of people who tuned into the livestream of their nest in Florida.
—Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2025
The destruction of the eagles’ nest is no small loss by many measures, as their nests can be 4 or 5 feet in diameter and weigh thousands of pounds, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
—Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025
First, inspect the vent and the area around it to ensure it’s not damaged, restricted, or blocked by animal nests.
—Lauren Wicks, Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2025
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Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 4 Feb. 2025
The back-to-back deaths of two beloved bald eagle siblings stunned the thousands of people who tuned into the livestream of their nest in Florida.
—Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2025
The destruction of the eagles’ nest is no small loss by many measures, as their nests can be 4 or 5 feet in diameter and weigh thousands of pounds, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
—Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025
First, inspect the vent and the area around it to ensure it’s not damaged, restricted, or blocked by animal nests.
—Lauren Wicks, Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nest
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There was so much clothing donated that donation centers started turning away offers.—
Kristin Deasy,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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The center, founded by MarySue Lindsay, a teacher and principal for 20 years, will start its standard hours and operations Tuesday, Feb. 18.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Feb. 2025
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Although scout spies can be costly, players can refill them by finding hideouts scattered around the world.—
Gieson Cacho,
The Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2025
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Agents of Sabotage is no different, adding meaningful upgrades with a new hideout in the Darnell Bros Garment Factory.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2024
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Each stay includes daily meals and snacks, childcare and postpartum classes, and access to a nursery and luxurious mothers’ lounge.—
Dominique Fluker,
Essence,
11 Feb. 2025
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Dyment was instrumental in fundraising for the construction of new buildings, including a state-of-the-art nursery and an event space, which was recently expanded to include an outdoor patio.—
Lou Ponsi,
Orange County Register,
11 Feb. 2025
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The infected spiders leave their usual webbed lairs, move to more open spaces, and ultimately die while clinging to cave ceilings or walls.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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Unlike most of the relatively flat Dakota prairie, the Missouri breaks that make up much of Sutton Bay’s landscape create an assortment of coulees with cattail bottoms, perfect lairs to hide the shifty late-season pheasants.—
Chris Dorsey,
Forbes,
9 Dec. 2024
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But to the Pakistani government and Western counterterrorism officials, the religious seminaries known as madrasas also represent a potential threat.—
Zia ur-Rehman,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2025
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In fact, after four decades of revolutionary fervor, the regime’s power centers, notably the military-security establishment and seminaries, are radicalizing rather than moderating.—
Kian Tajbakhsh,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Mar. 2019
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To deliberately collapse and compress a lobe of lung, and with it, its nidus of festering infection.—
Rebecca Kreston,
Discover Magazine,
24 Mar. 2017
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The indisputably desirable goal of supporting walking, biking and bus-riding around an Uptown nidus was severely wounded.—
Star Tribune,
Star Tribune,
30 Nov. 2020
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov will fly to the Saudi capital later in the day.—
Matthew Lee,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2025
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The journalists traveled to Haiti to show the grim extent of the devastation and barbarism wrought by the gang warfare that has sown chaos in the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince.—
Katie Robertson,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Nest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nest. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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