handmaiden
Example Sentences
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They were joined by "handmaiden" Kaura Taylor, from Texas, who calls herself Asnat.
From BBC • Sep. 12, 2025
For more than three decades after its creation in 1913, the Fed was largely a handmaiden of the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2025
Sophia, the nurse, and Jacobo, the apprentice, and her handmaiden, Amelia.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2022
Indeed, debt relief has always been the handmaiden of debt itself.
From Slate • Aug. 25, 2022
The allegiances shifted: the handmaiden of chromatin was suddenly its queen.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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