amahs

plural of amah

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for amahs
Noun
  • The contingent included doctors, nurses and search-and-rescue teams.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
  • Rodríguez also said the country’s entire public and private healthcare network had been activated to treat the injured, urging doctors, nurses and other medical personnel to report immediately to their workplaces.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • Providing relief and contrast are the sisters, daughters, mothers, wives, mistresses, and nursemaids, all of whom also have views on ideal social order.
    Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • That balancing act became even more challenging when working for some of the families featured on the show, whose expectations often pushed the nannies outside of their comfort zones.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 21 June 2026
  • Parents from working- and middle-class households are more likely to rely on screens compared to high-income parents, who can hire childcare services, such as full-time nannies.
    Aarushi Bhandari, The Conversation, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • Plenty of people are seemingly starting to feel like depleted AI babysitters.
    Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
  • But not everyone is convinced robots should be used as babysitters or elderly care workers.
    Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 17 June 2026
Noun
  • Non-compete agreements bound 30 million Americans, including even low-wage fast-food workers and dog sitters.
    Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • Freud held famously unhurried sessions, often requiring sitters to spend unbroken hours in the studio over the course of days or even months.
    Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 10 June 2026
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“Amahs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amahs. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.

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