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Noun
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Roughly 20,000 au pairs enter the country each year.—
Bailey Schulz,
USA TODAY,
4 Dec. 2024 -
Lynch spent his 13 months of house arrest in a Pacific Heights town house with panoramic views of San Francisco, five bedrooms, four fireplaces, and au pair’s quarters (all at his own expense).—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
19 Aug. 2024
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Other fan-familiar characters include Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser (Jamie’s godfather and Brian’s cousin, played by Rory Alexander) and Mrs. Fitz (Ellen’s lady-in-waiting and Murtagh’s mother, played by Sally Messham).—
Tony Maglio,
IndieWire,
16 Jan. 2025
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But while many ladies-in-waiting suffered as their queens fell out of favor, Jane has the distinction of being the only one to lose her actual head.—
Eva Wolchover,
New York Times,
2 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Her follow-up project, The Hotel (1981), saw Calle assuming the role of chambermaid at a Venetian inn.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
26 Oct. 2024
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It’s based on the true story of a Jewish child in 1850s Italy who was secretly baptized by a chambermaid and then abducted by the papal police and raised Catholic.—
Peter Rainer,
The Christian Science Monitor,
12 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Second of all, these people here, everybody is like a nursemaid so to speak.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
16 Jan. 2025
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Soon after, tensions between the couple boiled over and Dr. Ruxton murdered his wife and the household’s nursemaid, Mary.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
8 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Read Next National Flight attendant feared she’d be fired for removing mask to use inhaler, lawsuit says February 06, 2023 3:00 PM Read Next California Patient billed $6,000 for a urine drug test.—
Jennifer Rodriguez,
Kansas City Star,
28 Jan. 2025
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For me, the in-seat service coupled with a bus attendant offering snacks and hot towels made the journey feel more like a movie theater experience than a commute.—
Aaraf Adam,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The adaptation will star Sweeney as Millie, a young woman on her last chance who becomes a housekeeper for the well-to-do couple Nina (Amanda Seyfried) and Andrew.—
Erin Strecker,
IndieWire,
16 Jan. 2025
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The housekeeper watched as the young couple began investing in houses around the area, renting them out and relying on the proceeds as their main source of income.—
Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Jan. 2025
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However, like the original, it’s also grounded in the paranoia, compromises, and drudgery that are the handmaidens of intelligence work.—
Andy Meek,
airmail.news,
23 Nov. 2024
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But now, many millions of women in the U.S., and in Florida particularly, are the handmaidens of theocrats who are doing just that.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Apr. 2024
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