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[nest] / nɛst /


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Many Americans dream of relocating in retirement to stretch their nest eggs, and they often do it by moving to low-tax states.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

When you’re 65, 10 years is a long time to have the bulk of your nest egg locked up.

From MarketWatch Sep. 11, 2026

In the warm, dry spring a glut of glorious foundresses – new queens – emerged from hibernation to start their nests alone, carrying out all the nest building, egg laying, foraging and brood rearing.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

Months before, a bullet had ended the life of his beloved Pebbles, who left behind a nest with eggs.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

At the heart of each nest, in the innermost container, was a nuclear boiling water reactor.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Such weather extremes may have caused queens to abandon their nests or die, reducing the initial spring queen bounty to a more modest population.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

Now, even professional pest-controllers tell me it’s a quiet year with very few requests to remove wasp nests.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

He said the target was to double the number of narrow-headed ant nests from 200 to more than 400 at Chudleigh Knighton Heath.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

While Nile crocodile eggs naturally incubate in underground nests in the wild, zoos typically hatch them in carefully controlled incubators, closely monitoring the temperature and humidity.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

Everyone reluctantly agreed that allowing tourists to visit those precious nests in the hidden grove would be too dangerous.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

Below, on a plain white plate, sat the actual dish: shrimp nested in crisp cups.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

Having nested together for eight years, Jackie and Shadow raised numerous chicks and bonded by restoring their nest.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

Now, a group of the birds have nested at an industrial estate near Guildford, with the hope they will rear chicks in the coming years.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

The novellas are composed of nested stories inspired by Scheherazade’s tales in “One Thousand and One Nights.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2026

Bottles of vinho verde had nested in a bed of ice in the bathtub.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

"It will be terrible for some of the birds, seabirds that are nesting here that are quite endangered."

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

Under this proposal, assets buried inside a 20-layer Russian nesting doll of shell companies would face a 20% tax penalty when distributed, or 1% for every layer.

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

Like many seabirds, puffins return to their original nesting sites year after year.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

Features such as stingers, specialized nesting behaviors and other biological traits may have created conditions that made cooperation more advantageous and helped sophisticated insect societies emerge again and again.

From Science Daily Aug. 15, 2026

Otherwise, they looked like babushka nesting dolls with red and yellow scarves around sad faces.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri




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