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Noun
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Option 1: Au Pair An au pair is a caregiver from overseas who lives with an American family to help care for their children.—
Christina Crawford,
Parents,
16 Jan. 2025 -
Roughly 20,000 au pairs enter the country each year.—
Bailey Schulz,
USA TODAY,
4 Dec. 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
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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
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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
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He was charged with one count of interference with flight crew members and attendants by assault or intimidation.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
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Erickson and Turner were working as security guards, Williamson as a door attendant, and Johnson-Carson as a front desk agent, police said.—
Doha Madani,
NBC News,
11 Feb. 2025
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Now, practically everything moves in slow motion — including ominous cutbacks to a giant CG hourglass — as Tykwer introduces the Engels and their immigrant housekeeper Alia (Joyce Abu-Zeid).—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2025
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When a mysterious, Syrian housekeeper enters their lives, the family’s secrets and emotions are brought to light, while the housekeeper’s hidden agenda threatens to reshape their world forever.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
13 Feb. 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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