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nursemaid

noun as in nanny

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They took her to the children’s emergency department down the road from their home in the Bay Area, where she was diagnosed with “nursemaid’s elbow” or, more technically, a “radial head subluxation.”

She’d been working since she was 11 years old, first as a nursemaid during summer breaks, then as a cook for wealthier families.

Frances left school to work as a seamstress and nursemaid for a white Baltimore family that owned a bookshop.

“Not play nursemaid to thousands and thousands of illegals. He would rather have them do their job, which is stopping them at the border.”

Instead, it raids another ant species’ colonies for workers that it enslaves to nursemaid its young.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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