maid

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All that survived intact of the family’s former treasures were the netsuke, which were smuggled out of the family’s mansion by a loyal maid and returned to the family after the war.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Beetz stars as Asia, a young woman who turns up on the stoop of a high-end Manhattan apartment building, the Virgil, answering an ad for a maid job.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

The mysterious love interest turns out not, in fact, to be his heart's desire from society, but a maid called Sophie Baek.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

Whereas she named her Roomba “Rosie,” after the lovable robotic maid from “The Jetsons,” she calls the new one “HAL,” after the menacing, sentient computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

As she walked, the young lady’s maid passed the site where the Declaration of Independence had been written and adopted twenty years earlier.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis