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nested

adjective as in embedded

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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.

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Jackie, whom he’s nested with for the past seven years, followed close behind.

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Eagles are mostly monogamous and the pair has nested together for the last seven years.

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Indeed, there’s a novel nested within this novel, a samizdat work recounting the history of World War II and its aftermath as we know it, in which the Germans and Japanese are defeated.

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It was "bonkers", they added, to conduct a defence review without it being "nested" in a broader cross-government security review.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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