nanny

Example Sentences

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“I think it is a huge issue,” said Amanda Pruett, a local nanny and parent.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

"If Singapore is a nanny state, then I'm proud to have fostered one," Lee Kuan Yew famously wrote in one of his books.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

When the gold medal was confirmed, she embraced her two boys, who are both deaf, and the nanny of her children.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

The weekly cost of a nanny, meanwhile, averaged $936 a week last year.

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

He was raised by a black nanny and his constant playmates as a boy were the children of a neighboring black family.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson