as in nurses
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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Noun
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As of May, Siebers said, more than 1,700 nurses and at least 200 had already departed across the country.—
Natalie Eilbert,
jsonline.com,
4 Sep. 2025 -
Pay cuts for teachers, layoffs for school nurses, lost funding for free breakfasts, depleted resources for kids’ mental health—these are just some of the ways that slashed federal budgets could make schools less safe.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
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Photographing a whole host of famous faces, his sitters ranged from the Bright Young Things in the 1920s to artists and writers like Jean Cocteau and Andy Warhol, along with Hollywood starlets, cue Greta Garbo (famously his great muse), Marlene Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marilyn Monroe.—
Felicity Carter,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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One golden retriever's dining ritual has both confused his sitters and charmed millions online.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Nannies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nannies. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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