nest
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When you’re 65, 10 years is a long time to have the bulk of your nest egg locked up.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
In the warm, dry spring a glut of glorious foundresses – new queens – emerged from hibernation to start their nests alone, carrying out all the nest building, egg laying, foraging and brood rearing.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Older Americans who’ve spent decades building nest eggs in those accounts would feel like chumps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Months before, a bullet had ended the life of his beloved Pebbles, who left behind a nest with eggs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Without waking Glimmer, he carefully crept out of their nest.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
In the warm, dry spring a glut of glorious foundresses – new queens – emerged from hibernation to start their nests alone, carrying out all the nest building, egg laying, foraging and brood rearing.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Along the way, we recorded observations of chimpanzee nests, feeding signs, vocalizations and sightings.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
While Nile crocodile eggs naturally incubate in underground nests in the wild, zoos typically hatch them in carefully controlled incubators, closely monitoring the temperature and humidity.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
Numbers have declined from a high of nine successful nests in 2011, to no evidence of successful breeding between 2020 and 2024.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
There was no sign of her, although the number of bubble nests had grown to eleven.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
Below, on a plain white plate, sat the actual dish: shrimp nested in crisp cups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
The small seabirds have nested on the beach at Seaton Carew, near Hartlepool, every year since 2019.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
CJ7 and 022 have nested at Careys Secret Garden since 2022.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
The novellas are composed of nested stories inspired by Scheherazade’s tales in “One Thousand and One Nights.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
Eagles nested in the heights and came down to hunt the valleys, circling effortlessly on great blue-grey wings that seemed almost part of the sky.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
"It will be terrible for some of the birds, seabirds that are nesting here that are quite endangered."
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Under this proposal, assets buried inside a 20-layer Russian nesting doll of shell companies would face a 20% tax penalty when distributed, or 1% for every layer.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Bold Coast Charter’s trips allow participants to land on an island and spend a couple of hours in blinds to see and photograph at close range puffins gathered on rocks above their nesting burrows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Features such as stingers, specialized nesting behaviors and other biological traits may have created conditions that made cooperation more advantageous and helped sophisticated insect societies emerge again and again.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
No one knew quite how the hummingbears worked their nesting wizardry.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
