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Recent Examples of amah In colonial days, many families had a lifelong helper known as an amah (after the Portuguese word for nurse). — Time, 23 Jan. 2018

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This was a place where other Asians also found a home, notably lascars from India and East Africa, and ayahs abandoned by their English employers after the long sea voyage.

— Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026

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Just as many people can’t afford to have someone else clean their homes, landscape their yards or nanny their kids, those struggling to make ends meet may need to lean on AI assistance.

— Billy J. Stratton, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026
In her younger years, Caterham was a nanny and ran a nursery.

— Yi-Jin Yu, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2026

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The high amount of overtime at the mental health department is related mainly to nurses working at Whiting and Connecticut Valley Hospital, both in Middletown.

— Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026
You were born in Cleveland, your mother’s a nurse, and your dad’s a tattoo artist?

— Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of nurse

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Opposite Assante and Scacchi, who plays Odysseus’ wife, Penelope, Hollywood royalty Isabella Rossellini and Geraldine Chaplin deliver scene-stealing performances as Athena and the nursemaid Eurycleia.

— Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 24 July 2026
Taking with her only Fanny and a nursemaid, Wollstonecraft travelled to Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and during her travels, wrote dozens of letters to Imlay in which the infant Fanny might occasionally be glimpsed.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 June 2026

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