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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

“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

Steers said those are the nicknames for a pair of flying squirrels whom they believe to be neighbors of the eagles in the soaring Jeffrey pine that holds their 5-foot-wide aerie.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 6, 2024

Duchess and Lady saw Frightful bring food to Drum and set up such a screaming demand that Frightful picked up the rabbit and carried it above 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

When People magazine sought homey shots of Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford or Robert Redford in their mountain aeries, Mr. Regan was often asked to take the job.

From New York Times Dec. 1, 2012

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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