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nest

[nest] / nɛst /


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Many license holders regard the right to sell them as a kind of nest egg.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Between the sale of my business, my savings and some wise investments I made early on, I’ve built quite a little nest egg.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Bird's nest fungi resemble miniature nests complete with tiny eggs, while the rare red cage fungus forms a vivid crimson lattice structure.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

The Huntington Beach nest was near a section of beach that will be blocked off Oct. 2-4 for the Pacific Airshow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

After they’d called his aunt Lisa and secured permission for a sleepover, he and Maya-Jade made a nest of blankets on the L-shaped sofa and began their latest Fornax Force.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

In a typical day’s work, El Charro will cover half of the building’s exterior, methodically searching for hot spots and pointing Ford staff to nests that are later removed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Bird's nest fungi resemble miniature nests complete with tiny eggs, while the rare red cage fungus forms a vivid crimson lattice structure.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Teran, a 25-year Ford veteran, said staff at Hermosillo had been researching other tactics for scaring off pigeons, especially a cohort of birds that had built nests in the plant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

The Orange County turtle nests are several hundred miles farther north than the turtles have ever been seen nesting before.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Antelope would have young, and birds would build nests.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Below, on a plain white plate, sat the actual dish: shrimp nested in crisp cups.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Having nested together for eight years, Jackie and Shadow raised numerous chicks and bonded by restoring their nest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Swift boxes were placed on the tower of the David Attenborough Building in the city in 2020 and the first pair nested and reared two chicks in 2021.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

CJ7 and 022 have nested at Careys Secret Garden since 2022.

From BBC ● May 23, 2026

She watched her mother walk around their flat, collecting all the Catholic objects, the crucifixes hung on walls, the rosaries nested in drawers, the missals propped on shelves.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Sea turtles have been sighted laying eggs on the sand in Huntington Beach — the first known instance of a sea turtle of any species spontaneously nesting on the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

They also tend to return to the same nesting sites year after year.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Reserves manager Helen Deavin said the site supported "rare and unusual species", including nesting bitterns, the swallowtail butterfly and a pair of cranes that successfully raised a chick this summer.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

"It will be terrible for some of the birds, seabirds that are nesting here that are quite endangered."

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

At first the nesting killdeer screeched and whistled in alarm, flying frantically in all directions and repeatedly dive-bombing the mad sheepherder dressed in rags, who paid them no mind.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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