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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
  • Jenner was first sued by former members of her staff in April, when another former housekeeper, Angelica Hernandez Vasquez, alleged she was discriminated against.
    — Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Her father was a saxophonist during the big-band era and her mother was a housekeeper.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • Winnicott saw his own childhood as one held together by an entire assemblage of women, among them his biological mother, two sisters, a governess, a nanny, and a house full of maids.
    — Jamie Hood, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2026
  • As Sissy and Flo, a pair of maids who work for Jesse and who see everything, this cheeky, charismatic duo winds up being Wanted’s secret pair of stars.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2026

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“Handmaiden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handmaiden. Accessed 13 Nov. 2026.

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