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as in hideout
a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others
the detectives tracked the thieves to their lair and arrested them
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as in bed
British dialect
a place set aside for sleeping
while he was on the road, he used the back compartment of his lorry as his lair
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Recent Examples of lair
Uth Duna, an eel-like leviathan, hits like a truck and moves erratically within its watery lair.
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PCMAG, 11 Feb. 2025
Two days later, the mountain lion heads toward the log for a mid-afternoon nap but pauses to investigate the various scents around its lair.
—Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 9 Apr. 2025
Martini stories operate in a glamorous world where bad guys live in lairs, femmes fatales wait at every backgammon table, and our hero drives fast cars and seldom takes off a tuxedo.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
The latter here is represented via a large puppet created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, and the walk-through experience will take us from taverns to the back alley of a marketplace to the beholder’s lair.
—Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
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PCMAG, 11 Feb. 2025
Two days later, the mountain lion heads toward the log for a mid-afternoon nap but pauses to investigate the various scents around its lair.
—Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 9 Apr. 2025
Martini stories operate in a glamorous world where bad guys live in lairs, femmes fatales wait at every backgammon table, and our hero drives fast cars and seldom takes off a tuxedo.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
The latter here is represented via a large puppet created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, and the walk-through experience will take us from taverns to the back alley of a marketplace to the beholder’s lair.
—Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lair
Noun
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Up until the al-Qaeda forces discover their hideout, the action is contained to mundane activities: confirming operations, tracking other platoons’ movements.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
7 May 2025
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Based on a true story, a father and son in a warzone hospital face life-or-death choices as their hideout becomes increasingly compromised.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Poets toil as often-anonymous individuals building some greater nest, colony, or hive that might outlast us or end up squashed and swept away unceremoniously.—
Hannah Brooks-Motl
June 2,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2025
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Video showed that, as the eaglet took off at 10:46 a.m., Gizmo’s head swiveled, monitoring as Sunny fledged, or made an inaugural flight from the nest.—
Summer Lin,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2025
Noun
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Place the tallest plants at the back of the bed, with the shortest in front.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
30 May 2025
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In prior testimony, Ventura and Nash told jurors that Combs shoved Ventura into her bed frame that day, causing a deep gash in her eyebrow that required stitches.—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
29 May 2025
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No one supposedly could locate the accused to bring to trial, despite the men belonging to one of England’s highest nobility houses.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
6 June 2025
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Buffett began his stock-picking career in the mid-1950s, working out of his modest house.—
Rich Karlgaard,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
Noun
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There’s something a little bit magical happening with weatherproof sofas and couches right now.—
Erika Owen,
Vogue,
7 June 2025
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On Friday, June 6, the Working Girl actress, 67, shared a snap on Instagram of herself sitting on the couch in her 28-year-old daughter Stella's fiancé's new studio in Los Angeles.—
Kayla Grant,
People.com,
6 June 2025
Noun
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Photo: Eytan Stern Weber/Evan Joseph Images A slim passageway off the gallery leads to bedrooms and a den.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
19 May 2025
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For example, the main rooms can be neutral, but maybe the powder room gets color, or the den goes moody.—
Eleni N. Gage,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 May 2025
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Other notable features include a 12-bed bunk room and a spa with a Himalayan salt room, plus an entertaining complex decked out with a bar, a movie theater, a bowling alley, a sports simulator, an arcade, a cigar lounge, and a wine cave.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
23 May 2025
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The children’s bunk room is warm, sophisticated and cleverly designed.—
David Caraccio,
Sacbee.com,
22 May 2025
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Hares tend to live in open fields or meadows and are solitary, while rabbits are more social and often live in burrows or warrens, which provide protection from predators.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2025
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Burrowing owls are also desert dwellers and have adapted by digging burrows underground for nesting and shelter.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 May 2025
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“Lair.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lair. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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