nurse
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I am a nurse, although I am not working at the moment because I earned “too much” last year and am concerned about how that might affect my Social Security benefits.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
Retired oncology nurse Rosa Rivera-Ayala, part of the "Vote Safe" initiative, has stationed herself near a polling place in DeKalb County, which has a majority-Black population and a large number of naturalized American citizens.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
She said the health board's clinical strategy for oncology had led to "key developments", including nurse-led clinics and the introduction of colorectal and breast metastatic nurse specialist teams.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
But Kelly Whitworth, a nurse in Anchorage, wasn’t buying the confusion argument.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
The nurse went silently to the door and opened it for us herself.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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“We are standing with the powers that ought to be — the teachers and the nurses, the farmers and the ranchers, the grandmother who is facing eviction.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
A small group of these nurses were eventually allowed to treat Black soldiers in the US Army struck down by Spanish flu.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
Earlier, attendants and nurses were seen as an addition to family caregivers.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Overall, the complaint paints a picture of a system sowing confusion and unease for nurses, teachers and other borrowers, many of whom have been working in public-service jobs and paying their loans for years.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
And here at nursery school, probably all the children were learning to be nurses, and that meant—oh, no...
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
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This misbegotten “romanticization of lunacy in popular culture,” Mr. deBoer says, is “one of many aggravations I have nursed for years.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Even classical music listeners have their version in what may be the most legendary rivalry of all — the one that also-ran Italian composer Antonio Salieri supposedly nursed with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
From Salon ● May 16, 2026
A dog that was rescued from what an inspector described as one of the "worst jobs" of her career has found a new home with the vet who nursed her back to health.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
Most of them have nursed injuries over the past couple of seasons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025
Maman and Auntie nursed me so well that with all the cuts I didn’t even get a fever.
From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple
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The charity's chief nursing officer Paul Edwards says it is "trying to fill the gaps" within stretched NHS services.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
She had a decade-long career in nursing and public policy and found new opportunities through referrals from friends, colleagues or through people she met at events where she spoke.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
"I am still nursing an internal wound in my eyes," he said, adding that he now experiences shortness of breath and constant headaches.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
You’d expect long faces nursing their drinks, but it’s often the opposite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
She kept a brave face inside the nursing home, but later I heard her sobbing in the parking lot.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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