handmaiden
Example Sentences
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Ms. Horn takes trouble to depict Kay as an individual rather than a handmaiden.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
From the journals Metcalfe has surmised that Vivien, herself a brilliant literary scholar and teacher, had willfully lived out her marriage under Blundy’s shadow, the dutiful handmaiden to a literary eminence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
They were joined by "handmaiden" Kaura Taylor, from Texas, who calls herself Asnat.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
Reddit’s latest and perhaps greatest financial play is to become a handmaiden to our emerging A.I. overlords.
From Slate ● Dec. 27, 2024
Renowned educator Horace Mann saw phrenology as “the guide to philosophy and the handmaiden of Christianity,” and Horace Greeley of “Go West, young man” fame advocated phrenology tests for all railroad engineers.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
