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Recent Examples on the Web There, she is herded with some cloistered young women, handmaidens whose sole function is to bear children for Immortan Joe (Lachy Hulme), the Citadel’s leader. Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 15 May 2024 Across the room, facing Helen, her handmaiden and Paris — and a despondent-looking dog — is Cassandra, who could see the future, along with Apollo, who had cursed her so her prophecies would not be believed. Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024 Art was useful, too, as a handmaiden to the urgent problem of narrative. Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024 In her earlier fiction, McCullers presented imagination positively—as the handmaiden to creativity, or as a kind of life force. Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for handmaiden 

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“Handmaiden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handmaiden. Accessed 8 Oct. 2024.

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