nested

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The European Union, for example, passed a regulation in 2018 that said the public should have access to information about who owns European companies, even those nested in shell companies.

From New York Times

To perch on the forms, to be partially nested by them, is to partake of a pleasant inversion.

From Los Angeles Times

The musical, I came to appreciate, has a nested structure: The book is the spine, and each song in the score contains its own micro-narrative, its own voice, conveyed through music.

From New York Times

Yet the auctioneer’s voice, nested in drums, is so quiet and unemphatic that you could almost miss it.

From New York Times

Since then, officials said, several peregrine falcons have nested, but no pair had successfully hatched chicks until last spring.

From Washington Post