as in nest
a place or environment that favors the development of something a type of contact lens that proved to be a nidus of infection

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Recent Examples of nidus To deliberately collapse and compress a lobe of lung, and with it, its nidus of festering infection. Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2017 The indisputably desirable goal of supporting walking, biking and bus-riding around an Uptown nidus was severely wounded. Star Tribune, 30 Nov. 2020
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  • Granite can be of various colors, dotted with the black mica nests.
    David Bressan, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The ways dinosaurs grew up, reproduced and made nests used to be treated as mysteries, Manias notes, but now can be presented in detail.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024
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  • European Wax Center continues to focus on maintaining its brand position and ensuring consistent service delivery across its network of centers.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2024
  • And after having watched their team get beaten 5-0, many Maccabi fans made their way back to their hotels and the city center.
    Henry Austin, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Offshore is one of the world’s largest underwater nurseries that use mineral accretion technology, or MAT, a weak electrical current that causes limestone to collect on frames, which encourages coral to grow up to three times faster.
    Betsy Andrews, Travel + Leisure, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Karen worked as a nurse, while Geoff was a fitter While Liam was growing up in Wolverhampton, Karen worked as a nursery nurse, and Geoff was a fitter, someone who puts together or installs machinery.
    Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
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  • Israel has repeatedly battered strongholds of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah in the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut.
    Reuters, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Maintenance projects are currently already funded through the city’s general fund, and capital improvement plans are reported to the City Council after going through the planning department, making the current charter section unnecessary.
    Destiny Torres, Orange County Register, 6 Nov. 2024
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  • Those schools were, according to former pupils, hotbeds of cruelty and child abuse — an independent investigation in 2005 found evidence of criminal assault at the boys’ school in the 1970s and ’80s — as well as highly traditionalist values.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Pakistani counterterrorist forces maintain a strong presence in the Swat valley, which has long been a hotbed of Islamist militant insurgency.
    Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2024

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“Nidus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nidus. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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