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Recent Examples of nursemaid
The child is five, the youngest of a large, well-to-do family and the only daughter: doted upon by her mother and her nursemaid, exquisitely dressed in tiny silk dresses patterned after those worn by Queen Victoria’s children.
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Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
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
Providing relief and contrast are the sisters, daughters, mothers, wives, mistresses, and nursemaids, all of whom also have views on ideal social order.
—Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
Second of all, these people here, everybody is like a nursemaid so to speak.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
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
Providing relief and contrast are the sisters, daughters, mothers, wives, mistresses, and nursemaids, all of whom also have views on ideal social order.
—Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
Second of all, these people here, everybody is like a nursemaid so to speak.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nursemaid
Noun
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But staff members at Hennepin County Medical Center determined that could not possibly account for the fractures and bleeding throughout the 31-year-old's brain, said three nurses familiar with the case.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
4 Feb. 2026
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This hits nurses, teachers, drivers, and manual laborers hardest — people who work on their feet and whose bodies are their livelihoods.—
Phara Souffrant Forrest,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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In Peacock’s All Her Fault, a nanny from a rough background (Sophia Lillis) disappears with her rich employers’ little boy.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
30 Jan. 2026
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My second novel—The Butterfly Man—is based on the disappearance of Lord Lucan in 1974 after the murder of the family nanny.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Nursemaid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nursemaid. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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