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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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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
Tend your nest to support peace.
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Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
In the past, common practice for empty-nest homeowners, especially widows, was to have boarders living in their empty bedrooms to help pay their bills and avoid eviction.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2026
One excellent example of what citizen scientists can do is nest box monitoring for Southeastern American kestrels (SEAKs).
—Joe Murphy, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2026
By 15 weeks, the chicks have generally left the nest but are often not more than a mile or so away.
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
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It’ll be deployed to Google DeepMind and Hyundai’s Robotics Metaplant Applications center in the coming months, and additional customers will adopt it in early 2027.—
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This path begins with choosing leaders who will put principle over politics and ideology, with a promise to focus on the middle class as the center of every policy.—
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Virunga's forests are also believed to have been used as a hideout by fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces, which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State jihadist group.—
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From serene mountain hideouts to tiny communities with picture-perfect main streets, here are eight of Tennessee’s most romantic small towns for your next weekend away.—
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In an emotional Good Morning America appearance, Pratt recalled watching his children's bedrooms burn on security cameras — including son Ryker's nursery.—
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Clearance plants are often clustered together in the corners of nurseries with limited access to sunlight.—
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Outside of his lair, the world looks barren and deserted, save for a few glowing red rifts in the ground where the world is connected to the Upside Down.—
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Two young women are trapped in the lair of the Mangittatuarjuk, the Gnawer of Rocks.—
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All attended seminary together at University of San Diego.—
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After attending Catholic elementary school, Jiménez applied to the Redemptorist seminary in Wisconsin, only to be rejected after getting in trouble in school for throwing eggs at a bus on which the pastor was riding.—
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The indisputably desirable goal of supporting walking, biking and bus-riding around an Uptown nidus was severely wounded.—
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To deliberately collapse and compress a lobe of lung, and with it, its nidus of festering infection.—
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Though Andrea was found guilty of capital murder in 2002, her conviction was reversed.—
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And investments are only expected to grow, with Goldman Sachs reporting that AI companies are estimated to invest more than $500 billion in capital expenditures this year.—
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“Nest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nest. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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