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nest

noun as in home

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With tens of millions across the US currently unemployed, the number of residents with anything close to an ample emergency nest egg has likely dropped even lower.

Most creatures, most of the time, find it easier to do the latter than the former, which is why living things generally are more concerned with feathering their nests than de-feathering those of others.

For example, some of them sat on eggs in open nests, like modern birds.

They also worry that the investigation could be used to build up his own nest of public funds and could be used to resurrect the controversial $470 million desalination project in Playas de Rosarito.

This could include whole nests of honeybees, other types of hornets and yellow jackets.

Unlike Brunner, Remer was itinerant, and spent much time in that other nest of postwar Nazis—Cairo.

Mark Reay is a handsome model-turned-photographer who is homeless, living in a secret ‘nest’ on top of an apartment building.

And an eaglet does not start off flying from the ground, but from the nest.

When he approached the wrecked nest, Patterson saw one of the eaglets on the exposed ground near the base of the tree.

He then spoke to the state police, who proved to be aware of the fallen nest.

A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

Almost as soon as she had finished building her nest she had discovered a strange-looking egg there.

The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird's-nest.

And away she flew to her nest, leaving Grandfather Mole to talk to the air, if he wished.

Weimar being such a "kleines Nest (little nest)," as Liszt calls it, every stranger is immediately remarked.

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to nest, such as: burrow, den, refuge, aerie, haunt, and hideaway.

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

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