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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
Tend your nest to support peace.
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Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
In the past, common practice for empty-nest homeowners, especially widows, was to have boarders living in their empty bedrooms to help pay their bills and avoid eviction.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2026
One excellent example of what citizen scientists can do is nest box monitoring for Southeastern American kestrels (SEAKs).
—Joe Murphy, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2026
By 15 weeks, the chicks have generally left the nest but are often not more than a mile or so away.
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
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Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
In the past, common practice for empty-nest homeowners, especially widows, was to have boarders living in their empty bedrooms to help pay their bills and avoid eviction.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2026
One excellent example of what citizen scientists can do is nest box monitoring for Southeastern American kestrels (SEAKs).
—Joe Murphy, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2026
By 15 weeks, the chicks have generally left the nest but are often not more than a mile or so away.
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nest
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About 80 warming centers were opened across the state, known as one of the nation's poorest.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Jan. 2026
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On the company’s earnings call, analysts asked CEO Tim Cook several questions about Apple’s access to memory components, which have seen their prices skyrocket due to demand related to chips necessary for artificial intelligence data centers.—
Kif Leswing,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2026
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Virunga's forests are also believed to have been used as a hideout by fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces, which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State jihadist group.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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From serene mountain hideouts to tiny communities with picture-perfect main streets, here are eight of Tennessee’s most romantic small towns for your next weekend away.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
8 Jan. 2026
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By contrast, the warmer, shallower coastal lagoons of Baja California provide relatively predator-free nursery grounds for their newborn calves.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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These days the top of the crossing is busy with workers planting hundreds of native plants grown from seed at the project’s nursery nearby.—
Jeanette Marantos,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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The group follows Amelia into a secret lair in Silicon Valley where the '80s motherboard is locked away.—
Keith Langston,
PEOPLE,
27 Jan. 2026
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At one point Fiennes’ Kelson, in his lonely lair, glances at a snapshot he’s pinned to his wall.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
14 Jan. 2026
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That seems odd for somebody in seminary.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2026
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The Berkshires location was developed around Bellefontaine Mansion, a 1897 estate inspired by the Petit Trianon at Versailles that later served as a Jesuit seminary.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Jan. 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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Some of Thursday’s decline was related to Wall Street not being happy with how much the company was spending on investments for the future (capital expenditures), and the cloud business Azure may not have done as well as some hoped.—
Jason Gewirtz,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2026
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However, some oil executives have expressed discomfort with the idea of sending capital into Venezuela.—
Moriah Thomas,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Nest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nest. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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