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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
First-time screenwriter Nora Garrett assembles a viper’s nest of academics and one star student, but no one is likable.
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Kate’s annoyance at her decoy agent having bird’s nest hair is a similarly dry delight.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
Flamingos, on the other hand, nest only once a year, generally returning to the same location year after year, and lay only one egg.
—Jerome Lorenz, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2025
Creative While the woman had spared her viewers any sight of the spiders nest, TikTok users were quick to share their thoughts and fears on what had happened.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Kate’s annoyance at her decoy agent having bird’s nest hair is a similarly dry delight.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
Flamingos, on the other hand, nest only once a year, generally returning to the same location year after year, and lay only one egg.
—Jerome Lorenz, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2025
Creative While the woman had spared her viewers any sight of the spiders nest, TikTok users were quick to share their thoughts and fears on what had happened.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nest
Noun
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Freshman Eva Karacalidis starred in her debut at center-mid, helping the Porkers apply a wealth of offensive pressure in an 11-shot first half.—
Tom Mulherin,
Boston Herald,
17 Oct. 2025
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From 2021 to March 2025, the Turgeau emergency center treated more than 100,000 patients.—
NPR,
NPR,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Responding officers found the passageway, then found the hideout.—
Theoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Oct. 2025
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This hamster cage comes with a water bottle, exercise wheel, food dish, and a hideout.—
Jessie Quinn,
USA Today,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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That saves you money and a trip to the nursery.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
15 Oct. 2025
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Workers in a nursery can graft scion wood from a different tree onto that rootstock and a third apple may arise.—
Karl Schneider,
IndyStar,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The lair goes undetected for six months.—
Theoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Oct. 2025
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Following a trip to Bash Steed’s villainous lair, our trio returns home, where they’re confronted by Renée Zellweger’s Camila White.—
Ryan Schwartz,
TVLine,
7 Oct. 2025
Noun
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After the service, the King is expected to attend a reception at the Pontifical Beda College, a seminary which trains priests from across the Commonwealth, while Camilla will meet six Catholic Sisters from the International Union of Superiors General.—
Simon Perry,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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The seminary also sold the Carroll Park Apartments student housing to the city.—
Rick Mauch,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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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More than 60% of the capital's health facilities, including Haiti's general hospital, are now shuttered or non-functioning because of the surge in gang violence.—
NPR,
NPR,
17 Oct. 2025
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The aide ordered his family to pack their bags and go to the defense ministry in the capital’s central Umayyad Square.—
Danny Makki,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Nest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nest. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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