Thesaurus results for NANNIE

nanny

noun

ˈna-nē

variants also nannie

as in nurse

a girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children wrote a memoir recounting her days as a nanny for the rich and often indiscreet

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Recent Examples of nanny The same day that the nanny allegedly beat Walter, other caregivers slapped and flogged his siblings, including with shoes and wooden sticks. —

Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 11 May 2026 Foxman was born in Poland in 1940 and at 2 years old was left in the care of his Roman Catholic nanny in Vilnius, Lithuania, as his parents sought to escape the Germans. —

Ron Kampeas, Sun Sentinel, 11 May 2026 Your horse essentially gets a horsekeeper, a nanny, a bougie apartment, and an incredible professor—the trainers in Wellington are like Harvard [professors] in the world of academics. —

Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 7 May 2026 Carolina Cobian is accused of physically abusing a baby while working as a Santa Monica family's nanny. —

Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 7 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for nanny

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Ann Marie Luft of Lake Mary is a registered nurse with 12 years experience in fertility medicine and the co-host of the reproductive health podcast The Repro Files.

— Ann Marie Luft, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 May 2026
In California, babies between 15 days and 6 months can only work for 20 minutes at a time and spend two hours on set per day; also mandatory is a nurse, a guardian and a studio teacher, who ensures the baby’s wellbeing is looked after.

— Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 14 May 2026