nested

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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

In 2025, a second pair of ospreys nested in the south of England, and 2026 could bring a third pair, the charity Birds of Poole Harbour said.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

Yurok wildlife officials say this behavior suggests the pair are tending to an egg in the tribe’s Northern California homeland, where they haven’t nested for more than a century.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

The bright structures around the planet were not solid extensions of the world itself, but separate rings formed from many thin, nested arcs.

From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2025

On their annual travels between the foothills and the shore, paleo-Indians seem to have visited the area periodically to feast on the cormorants and boobies that nested on the rocks by the beach.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann