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Noun
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His only source of solace is his family’s Norwegian au pair, Astrid.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025 -
Holding court upstairs is a secondary primary suite, plus the en suite guest bedrooms and an au pair suite with its own kitchenette and private entrance.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Fox reclaims the notorious lady-in-waiting from centuries of scandal, revealing a sharp-witted, politically savvy woman caught in the tyrannical court of Henry VIII.—
Phillipa Gregory,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 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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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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In September 2025, Emerson pled guilty to one felony count of interference with flight crew members and attendants, per Oregon Public Broadcasting.—
Maddie Garfinkle,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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Once passengers buy tickets, the attendant directs them to a waiting Tesla, informs the driver of the destination and sends them on their way.—
Hadley Hitson,
Nashville Tennessean,
22 Oct. 2025
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Satterfield, the Murdaugh family's longtime housekeeper, tragically died in February 2018 following a fall at the Murdaugh estate.—
Samantha Stutsman,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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Brown’s description stands in stark contrast to the housekeeper’s own harrowing account of what happened.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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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