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aerie

[air-ee, eer-ee] / ˈɛər i, ˈɪər i /
NOUN
nest
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From his aerie, Phil Weiser has a sweeping view of the city skyline, the gold-domed Capitol and, occasionally, a red hawk on the wing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

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

“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

Flapping her wings uncertainly, she jumped off the limb and headed for 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

Seen from sophisticated aeries such as New York or London, their politics have often seemed clownish and tinhorn.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 26, 2017

In recent years, they have requested industrial aeries in Dumbo and Williamsburg and, increasingly, restored brownstones replete with subway-tiled bathrooms and laundry rooms that would dwarf many city dwellers’ living rooms.

From New York Times ● May 26, 2014

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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