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Recent Examples of nursemaidThe general practitioner murdered his wife, Isabella, and their nursemaid, Mary, before dismembering them and scattering their body parts in an attempt to thwart the investigation into their murders, according to the BBC.—Sean Neumann, People.com, 8 Dec. 2024 Typically portrayed as a middle-aged nursemaid whose main claim to fame was surviving the mercurial Tudor king, Catherine was an accomplished scholar, religious reformer and advocate for women’s education.—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2024 For a time, the girl’s only duty in the grand English house was to serve as a kind of human foot warmer, but when her mistress gave birth to a profoundly mentally disabled daughter, Zed became the baby’s devoted nursemaid.—Ron Charles, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023 Here the often wonderfully eccentric minor characters — chauffeurs, nursemaids, household servants — vie for center stage with the equally eccentric bourgeois clans that employ them.—Alida Becker, New York Times, 28 July 2023 Her nursemaid nicknamed her Lady Bird.—CBS News, 14 Mar. 2021 Brow furrowed, décolletage emblazoned with a full-chest tattoo, Marija is no one’s idea of a classic nursemaid.—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 1 Sep. 2021 That man, the vile King Kans, sends a demon disguised as a lovely nursemaid to kill Krishna in his foster-family’s home.—Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2022 Rhys received equally brutal treatment from the other female figure of authority in her formative years, her nursemaid, Meta, who violently shook her young charge when angry and terrified her with stories about blood-sucking zombies.—Malcolm Forbes, WSJ, 17 June 2022
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