as in infant
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as in crouching
to sit or recline comfortably or cozily
nestling with her children on the couch
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as in perching
to establish or place comfortably or snugly
we had scarcely nestled the children in their beds when there was a knock at the door
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Matias Grez, CNN, 14 June 2024
One upshot of that was an increase in the number of complete nest failures in which every single nestling in a nest died.
—Lee Alan Dugatkin, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
In the nests that the team monitored, parrotlets killed or wounded nestlings and eggs at 256 sites.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 May 2024
The unsuspecting vireo will then raise the cowbird chicks, which grow faster than its own and outcompete the vireo nestlings for food.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
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But Scotland did come away with a moment to remember just three minutes from time when substitute Scott McKenna headed Andy Robertson’s long free kick towards goal, taking a deflection off Rüdiger and nestling in the back of the net.
—Matias Grez, CNN, 14 June 2024
One upshot of that was an increase in the number of complete nest failures in which every single nestling in a nest died.
—Lee Alan Dugatkin, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
In the nests that the team monitored, parrotlets killed or wounded nestlings and eggs at 256 sites.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 May 2024
The unsuspecting vireo will then raise the cowbird chicks, which grow faster than its own and outcompete the vireo nestlings for food.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
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“Nestling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nestling. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
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