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Recent Examples of aerie
An eagle-eyed designer turns a couple's Chicago aerie into the warm and sophisticated home the empty nesters envisioned.
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Laura Fenton, Midwest Living, 16 May 2026
Rooftop Restaurant Where: Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Perched on the top floor of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the Rooftop Restaurant is a lazily curving aerie where Stratford’s creatives and ‘thesps’ chatter beneath a sky of orbital pendant lights.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
This set off a chain of errors that ended with the deaths of his wife, his son, and a U.S. marshal during an eleven-day federal siege of their paranoid aerie.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Eagly summons an entire aerie of allies to peck and slash Red to death, which feels like an appropriately grisly fate.
—Scott Meslow, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
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Laura Fenton, Midwest Living, 16 May 2026
Rooftop Restaurant Where: Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Perched on the top floor of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the Rooftop Restaurant is a lazily curving aerie where Stratford’s creatives and ‘thesps’ chatter beneath a sky of orbital pendant lights.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
This set off a chain of errors that ended with the deaths of his wife, his son, and a U.S. marshal during an eleven-day federal siege of their paranoid aerie.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Eagly summons an entire aerie of allies to peck and slash Red to death, which feels like an appropriately grisly fate.
—Scott Meslow, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aerie
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Just seconds later, local residents recorded on their cellphones the initial stages of the Eaton fire, burning at the base of the tower, known as M16T1.—
Tony Saavedra,
Daily News,
10 June 2026
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The 89-foot white tower is perhaps the most famous of Door County's 11 historic lighthouses.—
USA TODAY Network,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
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The fight makes its way to the penthouse, exposing Lestat as a real live vampire to his bandmates, who, up until now, thought the vampire thing was an elaborate bit.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
8 June 2026
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Most of its suites, including the penthouse, Belle Étoile, have been redone in silk and velvet.—
Matt Ortile,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 June 2026
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Inside Albufera Natural Park, this watchtower is a limestone promontory that gives views across paddy fields.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
2 June 2026
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This tiny Bavarian town has a 1,000-year-old castle, a 700-year-old watchtower, and a mayor in office for just a few days who's facing one of the town's biggest crises in its history.—
Rob Schmitz,
NPR,
16 May 2026
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“Aerie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aerie. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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