nest egg

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Recent Examples of nest egg One way to build that nest egg is through strategic long-term saving. Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 2 July 2026 That's why retirement planning needs to be about more than just maximizing your Social Security money or building a larger nest egg. Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 16 June 2026 While the affluent are living longer, healthier lives, and retiring with a nest egg and their dignity, low-income workers are facing destitution. Ann Larson, Time, 11 June 2026 Aspiring early retirees of a more modest sort curb their ambitions considerably; the LeanFIRE subset, for example, counts adherents who are saving for subsistence, a nest egg that will cover just their basic necessities. Joshua Rivera, Vanity Fair, 8 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for nest egg
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Noun
  • The program rewards families for activating the account, opening a savings account alongside it, and make deposits.
    John Ketcham, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The deposit is located in an area of the Great Basin Desert in eastern Nevada and could contain almost two million metric tons of tungsten.
    Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The installations at the 500 delis were completed in April, but the city has not committed any additional funds towards equipping the thousands of bodegas that remain unprotected, Mateo said.
    Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Here, the bankruptcy trustee knew about the Purplemed sale for $15 million and that most of the funds were in the Children's Trust.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Ruiter says teachers often provide materials that aren't covered by school budgets.
    Tori Mason, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Although the district reported substantial cuts in its third interim budget report, many of the improvements came from one-time savings, and the district was still projected to remain in the red.
    Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 5 Aug. 2026

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“Nest egg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nest%20egg. Accessed 7 Aug. 2026.

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