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nester

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as in homesteader

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Recent Examples of nester After a grueling year, 46-year-old Tashia Jones of Mount Holly, North Carolina, was juggling work and life as a first-time empty-nester. — Ronnie Li, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026 Creating Shelter and Nesting Opportunities Cardinals are not cavity nesters and don’t use birdhouses or nesting boxes to lay eggs. — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 17 Dec. 2025 An old larch makes a great choice for cavity nesters like woodpeckers. — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 21 Sep. 2025 The Company serves first-time, move-up, empty-nester, active-adult, and second-home buyers, as well as urban and suburban renters. — Andrea Meck, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nester

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In the mid-19th century, a family of Dutch-Afrikaans homesteaders sets out to cross the inhospitable terrain of the Kalahari Desert along with their backer, a boorish Brit whose avarice and bigotry loom large over the journey.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 July 2026
Luke Bracey and Crosby Fitzgerald star as Charles and Caroline Ingalls, homesteaders who move their family from Wisconsin to Kansas in the Western drama series.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 July 2026

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