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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
The nests also might be lined with grass and feathers.
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Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026
South Florida parks are aflutter with all kinds of feathery vertebrates building nests.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2026
Novels pile up in a drawer; gizmos in medias res become nests of parts and wires.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
Species like flightless parrot the kākāpō happily live, sleep and nest on the ground, for example.
—Tom Page, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026
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Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026
South Florida parks are aflutter with all kinds of feathery vertebrates building nests.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2026
Novels pile up in a drawer; gizmos in medias res become nests of parts and wires.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
Species like flightless parrot the kākāpō happily live, sleep and nest on the ground, for example.
—Tom Page, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for nest
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nest
Noun
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The Slovenian center set the team's career scoring record last month.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Flash forward to the present, however, and the data centers that are popping up everywhere are amid the AI boom are most decidedly not being built in the ocean.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
2 Apr. 2026
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At the time of writing, the clip of her hamster’s great escape and hideout has been watched over 308,000 times.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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The tour came in response to the Ecuadoran defense ministry's March 25 statement that his property wasn't a dairy farm, as had been reported, but a drug trafficking hideout, based on United States intelligence.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2026
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The tourist attraction in Cleveland, Georgia, offers free tours of the nursery and cabbage patch.—
Madeline Montgomery,
CBS News,
30 Mar. 2026
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It is found growing at elevations from sea level to 5,000 feet but is infrequently encountered in the nursery trade.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
28 Mar. 2026
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And then there’s newcomer, a disruptor given the name Pumpkin (Lola Fung), who formerly worked at a pretzel shop and enters this lair with suspicion.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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Both are one-night-in-hell slashers about two estranged sisters forced to fight their way out of a lair of rich people who’ve joined a devil cult and are hellbent on sacrificing them to their dark lord.—
Jada Yuan,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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Its seminary is the foremost clerical institution in the world, training students from Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan in a wide range of topics, including Shiite jurisprudence, Quranic interpretation and Arabic literature.—
Mary Thurlkill,
The Conversation,
30 Mar. 2026
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Larijani was born June, 3, 1958, in Najaf in neighboring Iraq, where his father, Ayatollah Mirza Hashem Amoli, was studying at the Shia seminary.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
17 Mar. 2026
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The indisputably desirable goal of supporting walking, biking and bus-riding around an Uptown nidus was severely wounded.—
Star Tribune,
Star Tribune,
30 Nov. 2020
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To deliberately collapse and compress a lobe of lung, and with it, its nidus of festering infection.—
Rebecca Kreston,
Discover Magazine,
24 Mar. 2017
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After the war started, Rebin said that bombs would not deter him from driving to the capital once more to search for his son.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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The city manager in Raleigh, the capital and second-largest city in the state, made $323,978, according to the Raleigh News & Observer’s slightly older salary database, which is from 2024.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Nest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nest. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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