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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

Tan’s gorgeous aerie above San Francisco Bay, with its canopy of four Pacific live oaks, is a paradise for birds, hosting 63 species and counting.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 6, 2024

Instead, it becomes something of a horror film, in which the apartment — an ultramodern aerie whose furnishings seem aggressively uncomfortable, lit in a chilly blue light — appears to be trying to kill Nemo.

From Seattle Times Mar. 14, 2023

A thin man in khaki work clothes came out of a diminutive octagonal aerie and leaned over a steel gangplank.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

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

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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