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aerie

[air-ee, eer-ee] / ˈɛər i, ˈɪər i /
NOUN
nest
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President Trump was also in attendance, up in a skybox aerie in Madison Square Garden.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 9, 2026

It will be interesting to see where Thorne lands after leaving an aerie like this.

From MarketWatch Oct. 15, 2025

Jackie and Shadow and their lake-view aerie are the subjects of a 24-hour online webcam that has been monitoring the couple since 2018, when Shadow replaced Jackie’s previous mate.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2025

“How you like us so far?” joked Paul Reiser, the actor and comedian, from one corner of a squishy sofa in McDonald’s Santa Barbara, Calif., aerie on a recent Tuesday morning.

From New York Times May 9, 2024

After dinner he would lean back against the base of an old chestnut oak, put his hands under his head, and watch the aerie.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

It’s only in the last several years that academic researchers have been leaving the university aeries and flocking to industry.

From Seattle Times Nov. 24, 2023

The high metallic ceiling of the hangar and the roar of jet engines outside made for a very different setting than a conference room in the glass aeries of Manhattan.

From New York Times Oct. 24, 2016

Many of the cave interiors have been playfully reimagined; in some, ceilings have been knocked out, creating three-story aeries.

From The New Yorker Apr. 20, 2015

Governments should encourage people to live in modestly sized urban aeries instead of bribing home buyers into big suburban McMansions.

From Scientific American Aug. 17, 2011

On the narrow peninsula they met hundreds of other raptors going north to their aeries, their nests and scrapes.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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