as in nest
a place or environment that favors the development of something
a type of contact lens that proved to be a nidus of infection
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Recent Examples of nidus
The indisputably desirable goal of supporting walking, biking and bus-riding around an Uptown nidus was severely wounded.
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Star Tribune, 30 Nov. 2020
To deliberately collapse and compress a lobe of lung, and with it, its nidus of festering infection.
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2017
Star Tribune, 30 Nov. 2020
To deliberately collapse and compress a lobe of lung, and with it, its nidus of festering infection.
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nidus
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In some species, ants restructure their nests to slow the transmission of a lethal fungus and in others, ant queens eat infected brood to prevent the spread of disease and recover nutrients.—
Arundathi Nair,
NPR,
7 Jan. 2026
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Two recent fires at PG&E substations cut power to thousands, drew condemnation from members of Congress, and spotlighted a year full of safety and maintenance violations at the utility giant’s substations throughout the region, from oil leaks to broken cooling fans and birds’ nests in equipment.—
Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Imagine a world where all of our cars run on clean solar – ditto for our HVAC systems – and even our AI friends run on solar powered data centers.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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In one of the largest mass abductions targeting religious worship centers in the West African nation in recent months, the attackers on Sunday raided three different churches in Kaduna state's Kajuru council area, seizing 177 people before 11 managed to escape.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 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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Once the ad-tech infrastructure is established, ad revenue becomes highly scalable and incurs low incremental costs, unlike the capital-heavy content creation process.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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In both instances, Copenhagen and the Greenlandic government in its capital Nuuk responded by expressing openness to further collaboration, stressing the importance of sovereignty and dispatching a high-level delegation for talks in Washington.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
23 Jan. 2026
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Part tour guide, part dream coach, Ney’s job was to explain how such a gargantuan feat was even possible, especially built on a strata of unstable mud near a hotbed of seismic activity.—
Katie Lauer,
Mercury News,
22 Dec. 2025
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Authorities say the shooters had spent much of November in the Philippines, an area known as a hotbed for terrorists.—
Mahsa Saeidi,
CBS News,
22 Dec. 2025
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“Nidus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nidus. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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