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nurser

noun

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as in nurse

a person employed to care for a young child or children volunteered at the hospital as a nurser to hold premature babies

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Lindsay Clancy’s lawyers don’t dispute that the former labor and delivery nurse killed the children.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
So there are doctors, there are nurses, there are health-care workers that are donning hazmat suits basically, and are in 80 percent humidity in the summer heat.

— Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2026

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This page is always skeptical when a nanny-state government tries to meddle in people’s lives.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026
Structured as a coming-of-age narrative, the novel sets Lenny’s small domestic world—her parents, her brother Adi, her godmother, and, above all, her Hindu nanny Ayah—against the hardening politics outside it.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026

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