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nesting

/ ˈnɛstɪŋ /

noun

  1. the tendency to arrange one's immediate surroundings, such as a work station, to create a place where one feels secure, comfortable, or in control


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Another notable region is nicknamed “Pigeon Valley” for the thousands of bird nesting holes dug into the pliable rock.

The birds have returned to the beach for their annual nesting—and the uncommon people never left.

Workflowy: Keep track of to-do lists, grand plans, and groceries to pick up in this clever nesting-system of organization.

In the Cavour high school in central Rome, mice run through the halls, nibbling on open wiring and nesting in the lockers.

It rides in on two house-made pickle rounds nesting on a thin slice of bread.

Eggs and nestlings were found lying on the bare soil at the inner ends of the burrows; no nesting material was found.

Probably the swallows were nesting in the cenote although the nests were inaccessible to view.

It appears, however, to be rather irregular in its breeding habits, nesting from the end of May to July or August.

I wish to inform those boys with whom I have been exchanging that as the nesting season is over I have no more eggs.

Marked as a rare summer resident, though no record of nesting.

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