nanny

Example Sentences

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Latifi interviewed the former weekend nanny of a prominent influencing family who never saw her work acknowledged online.

From Salon • May 10, 2026

She instigated the new restrictions, and rejects accusations of them being nanny state.

From BBC • May 3, 2026

“I don’t want to make it sound like, ‘Oh, just home-school your kids and get a traveling nanny, and then you can have the whole cake,’” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

She is so committed to frequent business trips that she home-schooled her children and brought them, plus a nanny, along when they were younger.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

As the nanny turned back to us, I slipped back under the blanket, and for good measure, the sheet.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck