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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
The nests also might be lined with grass and feathers.
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Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026
South Florida parks are aflutter with all kinds of feathery vertebrates building nests.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2026
Novels pile up in a drawer; gizmos in medias res become nests of parts and wires.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
Species like flightless parrot the kākāpō happily live, sleep and nest on the ground, for example.
—Tom Page, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026
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Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026
South Florida parks are aflutter with all kinds of feathery vertebrates building nests.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2026
Novels pile up in a drawer; gizmos in medias res become nests of parts and wires.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
Species like flightless parrot the kākāpō happily live, sleep and nest on the ground, for example.
—Tom Page, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for nest
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nest
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Texas had subbed 7-foot center Matas Vokietaitis out of the game with 11 seconds left after Boilermakers big man Oscar Cluff had fouled out, giving Purdue a better opportunity in the paint.—
Janie McCauley,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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The Gators now await NBA decisions from Condon, small forward Thomas Haugh and center Rueben Chinyelu, three juniors who formed one of the nation’s top frontcourts alongside with 7-foot-1 senior reserve Micah Handlogten.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Mar. 2026
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At the time of writing, the clip of her hamster’s great escape and hideout has been watched over 308,000 times.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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The tour came in response to the Ecuadoran defense ministry's March 25 statement that his property wasn't a dairy farm, as had been reported, but a drug trafficking hideout, based on United States intelligence.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2026
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The tourist attraction in Cleveland, Georgia, offers free tours of the nursery and cabbage patch.—
Madeline Montgomery,
CBS News,
30 Mar. 2026
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It is found growing at elevations from sea level to 5,000 feet but is infrequently encountered in the nursery trade.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
28 Mar. 2026
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And then there’s newcomer, a disruptor given the name Pumpkin (Lola Fung), who formerly worked at a pretzel shop and enters this lair with suspicion.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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Both are one-night-in-hell slashers about two estranged sisters forced to fight their way out of a lair of rich people who’ve joined a devil cult and are hellbent on sacrificing them to their dark lord.—
Jada Yuan,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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Larijani was born June, 3, 1958, in Najaf in neighboring Iraq, where his father, Ayatollah Mirza Hashem Amoli, was studying at the Shia seminary.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
17 Mar. 2026
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Taylor grew up evangelical and got a master’s from Fuller Theological Seminary, at the time one of the country’s most prominent evangelical seminaries.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2026
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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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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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An open-air concert in the middle of a capital city inverts all of that.—
Yook JiHun,
Popular Science,
26 Mar. 2026
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The thousands of blooming cherry trees that adorn the nation's capital have burst into ephemeral blossoms, the arrival of which marks the unofficial beginning of Washington's tourist season.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Nest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nest. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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