variants also handmaid

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Recent Examples of handmaiden However, like the original, it’s also grounded in the paranoia, compromises, and drudgery that are the handmaidens of intelligence work. Andy Meek, airmail.news, 23 Nov. 2024 Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) After making her small screen debut aged eight, a 14-year-old Knightley entered the big leagues in George Lucas’s sci-fi epic, as a dutiful handmaiden to the pale-faced queen (Natalie Portman), who serves as her steely decoy. Radhika Seth, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2025 However, like the original, it’s also grounded in the paranoia, compromises, and drudgery that are the handmaidens of intelligence work. Andy Meek, airmail.news, 23 Nov. 2024 Already convinced the coaches were nothing but handmaidens to the app, the firm piled on new clients heedlessly. Allison Pugh, TIME, 14 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for handmaiden
Recent Examples of Synonyms for handmaiden
Noun
  • You as a cook, a chef, a butler, a maid, the engineer.
    Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2025
  • Often Black women were relegated to stereotypical roles as maids, mammies, or exoticized figures.
    Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • If enacted, the wage mandate would affect thousands of workers in San Diego, from hotel housekeepers to ballpark ticket takers and zookeepers, some of whom would see their hourly pay rise by as much as 45% from the city’s current minimum wage of $17.25 an hour.
    Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2025
  • Actresses mentioned in the running included Judith Anderson (the housekeeper in Hitchcock’s Rebecca) and Helen Hayes.
    Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025

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“Handmaiden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handmaiden. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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