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Recent Examples of housemaid Sweeney plays Millie, a struggling young woman who finds a fresh start as a housemaid to the wealthy and well-to-do couple Nina (Amanda Seyfried) and Andrew (Brandon Sklenar). Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2025 The film is based on Freida McFadden's novel of the same name, and follows a young woman down on her luck who starts working for a wealthy couple as their housemaid. Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 22 Jan. 2025 Designed like a Fairy Tale Callas’ bed was the first thing Dyas designed, based on a candid Polaroid shot that Bruna, Callas’ housemaid, had taken of her in bed. Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024 The Housemaid centers on Millie (Sweeney), who lands a job as a housemaid to wealthy couple Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew before learning that the pair hide dangerous secrets. Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for housemaid
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Noun
  • If enacted, the wage mandate would affect thousands of workers in San Diego, from hotel housekeepers to ballpark ticket takers and zookeepers, some of whom would see their hourly pay rise by as much as 45% from the city’s current minimum wage of $17.25 an hour.
    Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2025
  • Actresses mentioned in the running included Judith Anderson (the housekeeper in Hitchcock’s Rebecca) and Helen Hayes.
    Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • You as a cook, a chef, a butler, a maid, the engineer.
    Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2025
  • Often Black women were relegated to stereotypical roles as maids, mammies, or exoticized figures.
    Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025

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“Housemaid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/housemaid. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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