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Noun
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After police arrived, the family’s breathless au pair shared a harrowing story with them outside in the driveway.—
Dateline NBC,
NBC news,
8 Apr. 2026 -
One section of the upper level includes a separate living area with its own entrance — an arrangement that could easily function as an in-law or au pair suite.—
Miriam Schwartz,
Hartford Courant,
8 Mar. 2026
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On April 8, the late Princess of Wales' longest-serving lady-in-waiting, Anne Beckwith-Smith, was given a six-month driving ban and ordered to pay several hundred dollars in fines, the Daily Mail reported.—
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
9 Apr. 2026
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Shân, as she was known, died in December at age 82 and had previously served as a lady-in-waiting to the Princess Royal.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
5 Mar. 2026
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Being a chambermaid also included grueling daily tasks such as maintaining fires, emptying chamber pots and scrubbing floors.—
Timothy Welbeck,
Fortune,
12 Feb. 2026
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In 1911, a gas explosion in that room caused major damage to the hotel and severely injured a chambermaid, according to the Estes Park Trail Gazette.—
Julie Tremaine,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The child is five, the youngest of a large, well-to-do family and the only daughter: doted upon by her mother and her nursemaid, exquisitely dressed in tiny silk dresses patterned after those worn by Queen Victoria’s children.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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Anna has come East to meet her estranged father, the Swedish bargeman Chris (Brian d’Arcy James), who believes Anna’s been earning money as a nursemaid.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
14 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The attendant and one of the passengers worked together at prying open the baggage compartment door while the other passenger crawled around the floor, searching in the thick smoke for a cellphone to try to use as a flashlight, according to the statement transcripts.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Apr. 2026
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Cabin attendant Sydney Ann Bosmans, the two passengers and one person on the ground had minor injuries.—
Aaron Cooper,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2026
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The singer was found dead in his bathtub by a housekeeper.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
16 Apr. 2026
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The housekeeper was the only person home at the time of the incident.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
15 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Curators pop up in famous artists’ biographies all the time, usually as handmaidens to the creator’s genius, opening a door to a gallery here or supporting a grant application there.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2026
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The common foe of all is expansionist Iran and its handmaidens Hamas and Hezbollah.—
Josef Joffe,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2026
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