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roost

noun as in perch

Strong matches

Weak match

noun as in nest

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Over the years, researchers experimented with roost cameras, military radar, hot-air balloons with ultrasound recorders, and GPS trackers -- struggling to create tools light enough for the bats to carry.

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"Full of little nooks and crannies where they can roost, big open flight spaces, dry spaces inside, away from the rain, where they can fly around. It is really just an absolutely perfect environment."

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Plaid Cymru successfully presented itself as the vehicle for change from a deeply unpopular Labour UK government and a Welsh Labour party that's been ruling the roost since Tony Blair's landslide victory in 1997.

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Liverpool are still in pole position, but the issues that have troubled them finally came home to roost at Selhurst Park.

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But we saw that message tank just eight months ago, unfortunately, and all of those things are coming home now to roost.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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