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Recent Examples of nursemaid
By the time Sam was born—in Florida, Missouri—the family’s enslaved property had dwindled to a single nursemaid, Jennie.
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Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Second of all, these people here, everybody is like a nursemaid so to speak.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
Typically portrayed as a middle-aged nursemaid whose main claim to fame was surviving the mercurial Tudor king, Catherine was an accomplished scholar, religious reformer and advocate for women’s education.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2024
For a time, the girl’s only duty in the grand English house was to serve as a kind of human foot warmer, but when her mistress gave birth to a profoundly mentally disabled daughter, Zed became the baby’s devoted nursemaid.
—Ron Charles, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Second of all, these people here, everybody is like a nursemaid so to speak.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
Typically portrayed as a middle-aged nursemaid whose main claim to fame was surviving the mercurial Tudor king, Catherine was an accomplished scholar, religious reformer and advocate for women’s education.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2024
For a time, the girl’s only duty in the grand English house was to serve as a kind of human foot warmer, but when her mistress gave birth to a profoundly mentally disabled daughter, Zed became the baby’s devoted nursemaid.
—Ron Charles, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nursemaid
Noun
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Abby quietly married Josh, an army veteran and nurse, in 2021, though news of their nuptials didn’t break until 2024.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Yet, bizarrely, the TV show undercuts this angle by inventing a serial killer nurse from whole cloth, a move that shifts the blame away from systemic forces and toward a motiveless scoundrel.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Fox News pundits such as Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity portrayed Let’s Move as a nanny-state plot to control the American diet, a slippery slope to the criminalization of french fries.—
Tom Bartlett,
The Atlantic,
1 Sep. 2025
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The nanny managed to escape and call authorities.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
People.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Nursemaid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nursemaid. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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