aerie
noun
the nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle or a hawk.
Example Sentences
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It’s only in the last several years that academic researchers have been leaving the university aeries and flocking to industry.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
Seen from sophisticated aeries such as New York or London, their politics have often seemed clownish and tinhorn.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 26, 2017
Governments should encourage people to live in modestly sized urban aeries instead of bribing home buyers into big suburban McMansions.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2011
In the sprawling lobby, editors, writers and arbiters of style glided skyward to their respective aeries, on escalators flanked by rainwater waterfalls.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2010
On the narrow peninsula they met hundreds of other raptors going north to their aeries, their nests and scrapes.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
