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Recent Examples of amahIn colonial days, many families had a lifelong helper known as an amah (after the Portuguese word for nurse).—Time, 23 Jan. 2018
Her mother, Caitlin MacLaren, is a nurse and South Miami resident.
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Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
18 Oct. 2025
Helping patients means helping nurses After getting her undergraduate degree in nursing from the University of Cincinnati, Holt began working as a clinical nurse in the neuroscience unit at UC Health, then called University of Cincinnati Hospital.
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Elizabeth B. Kim,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
18 Oct. 2025
James is one of them, though his kindly attempts to be there for Linda, as amateur repairman and reluctant babysitter, have a way of backfiring, usually on himself.
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Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2025
Another person said that OP is a babysitter, not a maid, and shouldn't be made to do the mom's chores.
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