1
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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2
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
On a recent morning at the Lincoln Park Pritzker Family Children’s Zoo, the treetops teemed with innocuous nests where pointed bills gave away the resting herons inside.
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Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025
The progress of the two young eagles is being followed through a 24-hour nest cam, located 145 feet up a Jeffrey Pine tree.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025
Poets toil as often-anonymous individuals building some greater nest, colony, or hive that might outlast us or end up squashed and swept away unceremoniously.
—Hannah Brooks-Motl
june 2, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
Video showed that, as the eaglet took off at 10:46 a.m., Gizmo’s head swiveled, monitoring as Sunny fledged, or made an inaugural flight from the nest.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
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Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025
The progress of the two young eagles is being followed through a 24-hour nest cam, located 145 feet up a Jeffrey Pine tree.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025
Poets toil as often-anonymous individuals building some greater nest, colony, or hive that might outlast us or end up squashed and swept away unceremoniously.
—Hannah Brooks-Motl
june 2, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
Video showed that, as the eaglet took off at 10:46 a.m., Gizmo’s head swiveled, monitoring as Sunny fledged, or made an inaugural flight from the nest.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nest
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Others, such as 18-year-old fellow center back Jordyn Bugg and 21-year-old Lilly Reale, will be playing with Girma for the first time.—
Tamerra Griffin,
New York Times,
26 June 2025
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Wolf, a seven-foot, 250-pound center, spent his first two college seasons at Yale before transferring to Michigan.—
Kels Dayton,
Hartford Courant,
26 June 2025
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Sipping sundowners at the glamorous beach clubs that propagate the sandy shores and cliffside hideouts along the French Riviera really shouldn’t take much convincing, but with so many charming seaside cities and villages to explore, deciding where to stay can be a challenge.—
Monica Mendal,
Vogue,
8 June 2025
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One of South County’s most exclusive hideouts, the Elwood Club at Pendry Newport Beach, is about to commit a rare feat of hospitality: briefly flinging open the doors of its restaurant, Viamara, to us common folk.—
Carolyn Burt,
Oc Register,
29 May 2025
Noun
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Proceeds will support the project’s nursery, which is featured in a new Save LA Cougars video explaining how all the crossing’s native plants, soils and compost have been chosen and nurtured.—
Jeanette Marantos,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
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King eventually managed half of the plantings, working with area nurseries on sapling and seed provenance, as NRG ecologists tried to keep pace.—
Robert Sullivan,
Curbed,
9 June 2025
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Times reporters got inside the lair of a Sudanese Army sniper, in a once-luxurious riverside building in Khartoum.—
Natasha Frost,
New York Times,
24 Mar. 2025
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Fitting for an actor, the house hides a cinematic lair.—
Spencer Elliott,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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Mojtaba Khamenei currently teaches theology at a religious seminary in Qom and is closely aligned with his father’s hardline views, Reuters reported, citing sources.—
Greg Norman,
FOXNews.com,
23 June 2025
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The seminary’s active uses are concentrated on the north campus — spanning 10 acres — which consists of three major administrative buildings, a small chapel and nine single-family homes for students.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
11 June 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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Most partnership model firms lack the capital to invest in AI, talent, and infrastructure.—
Mark A. Cohen,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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San Francisco was ranked 57th on quality of city services but 148th in total budget per capital.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
17 June 2025
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“Nest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nest. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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