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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But staff members at Hennepin County Medical Center determined that could not possibly account for the fractures and bleeding throughout the 31-year-old's brain, said three nurses familiar with the case.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
4 Feb. 2026 -
This hits nurses, teachers, drivers, and manual laborers hardest — people who work on their feet and whose bodies are their livelihoods.—
Phara Souffrant Forrest,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2026
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There’s also tax relief for taxpayers who pay for child care — day care, a nanny, preschool or summer camp.—
Sarah Moreno
February 6,
Miami Herald,
6 Feb. 2026
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Caring for Iris and her infant brother Peter instead is a robot nanny named Mikki (whose voice combines Natalie Portman and Mark Ruffalo’s voices, since the actors also play Iris’ parents).—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Dry nurse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dry%20nurse. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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