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Noun
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But inside their home, Brendan and the family's live-in au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, were spinning a web of infidelity and deception that culminated in a chilling double homicide.—
Alyssa Modos,
PEOPLE,
9 June 2026 -
The live-in au pair, 25-year-old Juliana Peres Magalhaes of Brazil, with whom prosecutors said Banfield was having an affair, separately pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, after which she will be deported, Fairfax County prosecutors said.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
6 June 2026
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Lady Pamela Hicks, a lady-in-waiting and bridesmaid of Queen Elizabeth, has died.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
5 June 2026
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Ruby, played by Vivica A. Fox, is a bedridden queen, mummified in compression wraps, immobile except for the lips, and attended to by nurses wearing gold door-knocker earrings, as if ladies-in-waiting, who file her talon nails and braid the ropes of her wig.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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Prior to her escape, Judge served as a chambermaid in the President’s House.—
Timothy Welbeck,
The Conversation,
20 May 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
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Taking with her only Fanny and a nursemaid, Wollstonecraft travelled to Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and during her travels, wrote dozens of letters to Imlay in which the infant Fanny might occasionally be glimpsed.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 June 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
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Henrique worked as a parking garage attendant and had recently returned from a trip to Miami when he was shot.—
Kerry Burke,
New York Daily News,
12 June 2026
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The combination of attendants and police officers directing traffic seemed to have worked.—
Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
11 June 2026
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Some families even bring their housekeepers, presumably to clean up all of the empty soy sauce packets.—
Brendan Cosgrove,
Fortune,
15 June 2026
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The original series starred Tony Danza as a former baseball player who takes a job as a housekeeper for a career woman and single mom (Judith Light), and moves into her home with his teen daughter, Sam, played by Alyssa Milano.—
Britt Hayes,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 June 2026
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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
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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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