nest

Example Sentences

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Many life transitions—retirement, widowhood, divorce, empty nesting—come with an unexpected loss of social anchors.

From The Wall Street Journal

The long pheasant feathers made it appear that a large bird had nested and died up there.

From Literature

Let’s say you went with the plan to start drawing down your nest egg now, and let’s round it up to $410,000, combining your own savings and the inherited IRA balance.

From MarketWatch

With the magic of compounding, if we live long enough, our nest egg could look like it was laid by an ostrich.

From MarketWatch

For her, to go back to Europe with a nest egg was maybe worth it.

From Barron's