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nests

noun

plural of nest

as in centers

a place or environment that favors the development of something suspected that the elite private universities were a nest of antigovernment sentiments

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a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others headed back to her cozy nest in the mountains for a little rest and relaxation

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Recent Examples of nests The men feared that nests on the beach would lead to fewer customers and less money being spent there, authorities said. — Natasha Holt, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2026 After choosing your traps from a local home improvement store, place them around your yard’s perimeter, especially near the nests. — Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 5 Aug. 2026 The Swainson’s hawk nests in Solano County and the Central Valley from March through September, traveling thousands of miles to spend winters in Mexico and Argentina. — Bay City News, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2026 Some wasps use the underground homes of other animals to build their nests. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 1 Aug. 2026 Their vacuum cleaners had originally been designed to suck asbestos out of old buildings; a vacuum bag could hold forty pounds of caterpillars and their nests, and a worker could fill three bags a day. — Ben Crair, New Yorker, 31 July 2026 Further, there are not many predators of adult Canada geese or their nests in urban areas. — Mark Vrtiska, The Conversation, 30 July 2026 Chief among the dangers is climate change that has led to rising seas and erosion washing out oystercatcher nests. — Michael Casey, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026 The hospital called Hahn, asking for help finding a solution for the birds that had fallen out of their nests. — Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 19 July 2026

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The system aims to give security operations centers a higher-confidence signal.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
France’s new law has raised concerns in Morocco, where the minister of employment, Younes Sekkouri, told lawmakers up 50,000 jobs were at risk in the country’s call centers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026

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Others recounted people falling sick, being beaten by the rain, and told to hide whenever Nigerian military helicopters flew over the forest hideouts where the captors held them.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
Security forces carried out a ground operation along the border late Sunday, followed by strikes against militant hideouts and safe havens, killing 29 fighters, Pakistan’s Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said.

— Abdul Qahar Afghan, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026

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However, Canada’s success at the World Cup could lead to even more interest in soccer in traditional hockey hotbeds.

— Shelby Blackley, New York Times, 4 July 2026
India leads the way population-wise, but other South Asian countries, as well as Great Britain and Commonwealth countries like Australia and New Zealand, are also cricket hotbeds.

— Christian Babcock, Mercury News, 23 June 2026

Definition of hotbeds

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Athletics The Athletics are led by DH Brent Rooker, who hit 39 homers and stole 11 bases last year, and right fielder Lawrence Butler, an emerging star who added 22 homers and 18 steals.

— Jim Bowden, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
Washington Nationals The Nationals should take the next step forward as their young nucleus, led by shortstop CJ Abrams, who hit 20 homers and stole 31 bases last year, continues to develop and improve.

— Jim Bowden, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025

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This week brought me from Belgian Gothic seminaries to Victorian mansions, with a few aggressively average $4,700 apartments sprinkled among them to keep us grounded.

— Nora DeLigter, Curbed, 7 Aug. 2026
Southwestern Seminary continues to be one of the largest and best resourced seminaries among the 280 seminaries accredited by the Association of Theological Schools, Dockery said in his letter.

— Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 June 2026

Definition of seminaries

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These incidents have many travelers asking if cruises are breeding grounds for illnesses and germs?

— Nathan Diller, USA Today, 11 May 2026
Apocalypse movies are breeding grounds for unlikely posses, and this Australian zom-com from writer-director Abe Forsythe is no exception.

— Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Feb. 2026

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