as in nurse
a girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children
after years of being a dry nurse to other women's children, she longed to have a child of her own
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Noun
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The head of a medical watchdog group unleashed on Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) after a nurse at the school's hospital lost her job over TikTok videos that went viral for all the wrong reasons.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
29 Jan. 2026 -
On Saturday morning, Pretti, an ICU nurse, was killed by a Border Patrol agent while holding his phone to record a chaotic scene.—
Laura Yuen,
Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2026
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In Peacock’s All Her Fault, a nanny from a rough background (Sophia Lillis) disappears with her rich employers’ little boy.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
30 Jan. 2026
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My second novel—The Butterfly Man—is based on the disappearance of Lord Lucan in 1974 after the murder of the family nanny.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Dry nurse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dry%20nurse. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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