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roost

[roost] / rust /
NOUN
perch
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And your little white lies will come home to roost.

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

The third case involved covert surveillance at a hen harrier roost in the Yorkshire Dales where investigators captured evidence of a planned attempt to kill one of the UK's rarest birds of prey.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

At one point Neriya and her companions are ushered into the sanctum sanctorum of a corvid roost, where thousands if not millions of crows coexist in sophisticated collaboration.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

That’s where “mother” has come home to roost, now applied as liberally to pop stars as it is screen sirens, influencers and Food Network hosts.

From Salon • May 10, 2026

I don’t know where they came from, but like chickens coming home to roost, they flocked around me.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls




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