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Noun
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Once an au pair to moody teen Brooke (Olga Petsa), Sam is forced to confront her unresolved trauma when her ex-charge suddenly goes missing.—
Alex Gurley,
People.com,
31 Aug. 2025 -
The au pair even recalled testing the sound one day.—
David K. Li,
NBC news,
27 Aug. 2025
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This is honourable work for a lady-in-waiting to a queen, and the duty of a beloved sister-in-law.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Her lady-in-waiting’s husband, Lord Colin Tennant, spent vast amounts of his fortune on transforming Mustique, a tiny island in the Caribbean, into a party resort for the rich and famous.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
13 July 2025
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Prior soon learned that a job agency had sent the teenager, who couldn’t read, to seek employment at the house as a chambermaid.—
Jenna Deep,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Mar. 2025
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It’s based on the true story of a Jewish child in 1850s Italy who was secretly baptized by a chambermaid and then abducted by the papal police and raised Catholic.—
Peter Rainer,
The Christian Science Monitor,
12 Dec. 2024
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By the time Sam was born—in Florida, Missouri—the family’s enslaved property had dwindled to a single nursemaid, Jennie.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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Second of all, these people here, everybody is like a nursemaid so to speak.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
16 Jan. 2025
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These cabanas fit up to 12 guests and come with shaded seating, towels, a personal safe, and a dedicated attendant to keep the food and drinks flowing.—
Martie Bowser,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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Along with Jay comes an entourage of attendants, among them his manager, Ron Sukenick (Adam Sandler); his publicist, Liz (Laura Dern); and his hair and makeup person, Phoebe (Emily Mortimer, who co-wrote the script with Baumbach).—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
28 Aug. 2025
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The 1990s Father Ted comedy for the BBC centered on three misfit priests and their housekeepers on a remote Irish island.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Sep. 2025
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The children's longtime nanny, Maria Turrion Borrallo, and housekeepers will likely stay in smaller properties nearby.—
Stephanie Petit,
People.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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During the Cold War, the military-industrial complex was driven by corporations that operated as handmaidens to the state.—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
28 July 2025
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That is Esther and her handmaiden in his painting, sure as life.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
19 July 2025
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