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snuggery

noun

Definition of snuggery

chiefly British

as in cubbyhole

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Recent Examples of snuggery Up some floating staircases, a landing was arrayed with Ping-Pong and foosball tables and a snuggery of orange Knoll womb chairs. — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023

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Noun

One day, during my visit, Cole used a step stool to access a small cubbyhole in a high corner of a bedroom wall—a sort of illogical nook that seemed preordained to house some private, upsetting object.

— Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
During the decades with Cox at the helm of the Braves, the smell of cigar smoke became familiar, wafting from the home dugout on early afternoons at old Fulton County Stadium or from a cubbyhole next to the home dugout at Turner Field.

— David O'Brien, New York Times, 9 May 2026

Definition of cubbyhole

Noun

On his latest, Young’s major-key meditations on love and alienation are as winsome as a bay breeze, if occasionally as insubstantial.

— Linnie Greene, Pitchfork, 20 Oct. 2026
The complex will feature four payload bays, two encapsulation bays, and a dedicated area for processing multiple payloads together.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of bay

Noun

Sanitizer concentration at the three-compartment sink is at or over 200 ppm.

— NWA Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
The parks officers used fire extinguishers to try to put out the growing blaze, but the flames spread from the front of the vehicle toward the passenger compartment, the CHP said.

— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of compartment

Noun

But the home is also well laid out, with a smaller office-or-unofficial-nursery nook upstairs and a living area that gets pretty great natural light.

— Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 19 Oct. 2026
The farmhouse kitchen, meanwhile, is all white cabinetry and marble countertops, with a breakfast nook placed next to a bay window.

— Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of nook

Noun

This accent color continues into the cabin on the dashboard and center console, while the standard four-way power-adjustable sport seats add to the sense of occasion with plaid inserts.

— Bradley Iger, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2026
Just as importantly, a clean cabin creates a more comfortable environment for passengers, whether the journey is a short commute or a long-distance road trip.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of cabin

Noun

The wrinkle is that mitochondria live inside the cell and depend on it, so anything that improves their function will improve the cell, but anything that improves the cell will also improve them.

— Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
These include immune amnesia, a type of immunosuppression in which the measles virus destroys immune cells and adaptive responses.

— Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of cell

Noun

If Sherrod Brown wins his Senate race, Ohio’s delegation will be the most awkward in the chamber next Congress.

— semafor.com, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Tiny droplets of the molten tin are fired out of a cannon into a vacuum chamber, where they are shot—sixty thousand times a second—by unerring lasers.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of chamber

Noun

The family was living in Berkeley in the mid-fifties when, in free moments, Drexler began putting together sculptures from the contents of her junk drawer.

— Leslie Camhi, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026
In a utensil drawer, four knives were seen with food residue on the blades.

— Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2026

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