nest eggs

plural of nest egg

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of nest eggs This approach could ease worries about nest eggs by extending income across a longer stretch. Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025 In Hawaii and New York, residents are projected to have higher than average retirement incomes, but higher than average expenses or longer lifespans due to things like diets and access to health care may mean those nest eggs won’t last long enough. Roxana Popescu, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025 The collapsing housing market accompanying this crash significantly reduced the value of our interviewees’ nest eggs at a time when they were already financially taxed. Dave Smith, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nest eggs
Noun
  • The main channel of the Amazon River constantly erodes existing land and deposits new earth.
    Isa Cardona, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Suzuki argued that Japan had enough uranium deposits at home and overseas to build the bomb.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • First Brands had a web of complex debt agreements with a slew of lenders and investment funds globally.
    Michael Wayland, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
  • This led to fervent talk about our perpetual lack of funds, the ravages of late capitalism, and how to assuage said ravages.
    Sam Lipsyte, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The greatest concern is for new controllers who might make less than $50,000, but even experienced controllers who make well over six figures while working six days a week may be living paycheck to paycheck without much cushion in their budgets.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Running for a full four-year term in 2026, the former chair of Florida’s Republican Party has used the same formula in barn-storming stops across Florida to argue that local governments should cut tax rates and shrink their budgets.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025

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