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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
While alive and alert, the duo weren’t quite out of harm’s way yet—their nest was slowly sinking into the water with them in tow.
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 Apr. 2025
Ants also take violet seeds to their young at the nest.
—Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2025
Sunny, who is approximately seven weeks old, and Gizmo will take their first flight away from the nest in a few weeks, LAist reported.
—Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
That means sea turtle nests need to be marked before any seaweed cleanups can begin in Miami Beach, considered a crucial nesting habitat for loggerhead, green and leatherback sea turtles.
—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2025
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 Apr. 2025
Ants also take violet seeds to their young at the nest.
—Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2025
Sunny, who is approximately seven weeks old, and Gizmo will take their first flight away from the nest in a few weeks, LAist reported.
—Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
That means sea turtle nests need to be marked before any seaweed cleanups can begin in Miami Beach, considered a crucial nesting habitat for loggerhead, green and leatherback sea turtles.
—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nest
Noun
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The city also offers a tourist train for five euros that runs about every hour, connecting the historic center with the two main beach areas (Platja de la Grava and Platja de l’Arenal).—
Liz Provencher,
Travel + Leisure,
20 May 2025
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Gigabyte has made a concerted effort to capitalize on the AI gold rush of the last two or three years, aggressively making and selling AI data center hardware.—
Brian Westover,
PC Magazine,
20 May 2025
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Based on a true story, a father and son in a warzone hospital face life-or-death choices as their hideout becomes increasingly compromised.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
29 Apr. 2025
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When Joe secures an isolated, off-the-grid lake house as their temporary hideout, Bronte realizes time is running out.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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This ranges from a solar farm housing grazing sheep as a natural way to maintain the land, to a learning center, fruit orchard, tree nursery and vegetable patch dedicated to growing foods that are hard to get in Puerto Rico, like kale, lettuce and tomatoes.—
Roger Sands,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2025
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Epic Universe is a powerful example of how Florida’s nursery and landscape industry shapes the state’s world-class visitor experiences.—
Tal Coley,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 May 2025
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Gene Hackman’s Lex Luthor is an evil mad scientist with plans for destruction and domination, armed with Kryptonite and a subterranean lair shared.—
Mark Hughes,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Uth Duna, an eel-like leviathan, hits like a truck and moves erratically within its watery lair.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
11 Feb. 2025
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And as media reports have suggested, these madrassas or seminaries had already been vacated earlier.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
9 May 2025
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The first retreat took place at Mount St. Alphonsus, a former seminary in Esopus, N.Y.—
Manuel Betancourt,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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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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The home is in the central part of the state about 70 miles west of Lincoln, the state capital.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
13 May 2025
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The fixture list added further intrigue to that race, Atalanta facing Roma on Monday evening while Juve headed to the Italian capital on Saturday evening to take on a Lazio side that was on a six-game unbeaten run.—
Adam Digby,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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“Nest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nest. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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