as in nurses
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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nurses
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As of May, Siebers said, more than 1,700 nurses and at least 200 had already departed across the country.—
Natalie Eilbert,
jsonline.com,
4 Sep. 2025 -
Pay cuts for teachers, layoffs for school nurses, lost funding for free breakfasts, depleted resources for kids’ mental health—these are just some of the ways that slashed federal budgets could make schools less safe.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Dry nurses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dry%20nurses. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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