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Recent Examples of handmaiden Brush in hand, she is dwarfed by huge canvases within the paintings on which bare-breasted figures are in the process of emerging—a waiflike handmaiden hard at work at the feet of her American Helens of Troy. Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 23 May 2026 The common foe of all is expansionist Iran and its handmaidens Hamas and Hezbollah. Josef Joffe, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2026 That’s for the courts to say, not Trump’s handmaidens in cruelty. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2025 And what the project means by the term—turning the Department of Energy into a handmaiden of the coal, oil and natural gas industry—betrays not only the taxpayer but science itself. Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for handmaiden
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Noun
  • The former California governor also shares youngest son Joseph Baena, 28, with former housekeeper Mildred Patricia Baena.
    Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026
  • The film is about a former housekeeper named Marie who, while preparing to celebrate her engagement to the patriarch of the house, is haunted by secrets of her past.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 23 July 2026
Noun
  • Based on Freida McFadden’s bestselling novel, the sequel picks up as Sweeney’s Millie, who works as a live-in maid for wealthy families, takes a new job — this time keeping house for a woman she’s never allowed to see.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 4 Aug. 2026
  • If Lizzie is Cinderella, then actor Vicky Krieps’s Bridget Sullivan, the Bordens’ live-in maid, is her fairy godmother.
    Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026

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“Handmaiden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handmaiden. Accessed 7 Aug. 2026.

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