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a person employed to care for a young child or children
sent the children to their nursemaid
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Recent Examples of nursemaids
Providing relief and contrast are the sisters, daughters, mothers, wives, mistresses, and nursemaids, all of whom also have views on ideal social order.
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Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nursemaids
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If these scenes feel a bit didactic, hammering home everything from the shortage of nurses with SANE training to the dozens of regulations SANEs must follow to protect evidence, their lessons serve as a corrective for many of us who’ve absorbed decades’ worth of rape-as-entertainment.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
27 Feb. 2026
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Parton said she is honored to support the hospital’s doctors, nurses and team members — and invited the public to join her.—
James Pollard,
Fortune,
26 Feb. 2026
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Family photographs and accounts from former nannies have offered the public rare glimpses into these spaces.—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
22 Feb. 2026
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And that’s thanks, in large part, to her nannies.—
Heidi Stevens,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Nursemaids.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nursemaids. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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