nested

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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

"They preserve microstructural and geochemical signals that tell us not only what kinds of animals laid them, but also where they nested and how they bred," he says.

From Science Daily

Instead, they identified immense, separate rings formed from innumerable nested arcs.

From Science Daily

He was mummified and buried in Luxor's Valley of the Kings inside three nested coffins, the smallest weighing 110kg, all placed within four gilded shrines like matryoshka dolls.

From Barron's

Brent Ellis, principal analyst at market researcher Forrester, said the outage exposed what he called the "nested dependency" between popular digital platforms and the array of services providing the web's technical underpinnings.

From BBC