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nanny

[nan-ee] / ˈnæn i /
NOUN
children's nurse
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Kellie Rae Williams, a dancer-turned-house manager in San Francisco, works full time for a high-net-worth family alongside a nanny and cleaner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

This is also possible because they have a nanny to take them from one place to another while the parents work.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Like many house managers, Thompson started as a nanny and expanded into family home operations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

If we’re giving parents money for childcare, it does indeed seem fair to allow that money to support at-home care too, whether the carer is the child’s parent or a nanny.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

I had a nanny once who went to lots of auditions.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

While healing from their losses, they hustled, working as caregivers, nannies, Uber drivers and house cleaners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Alexandra Fine, a mother of three young children, spends about $85,000 a year on a team of seven that includes nannies, a home organizer, a handyman and a virtual assistant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

Once procured, the infants were taken to a house in Pontianak where they were taken care of by hired nannies.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Aviv reports on Filipina women who move to the United States to work as nannies and send money home to their families.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Dad said he worked with them in placing au pairs and nannies with lots of university families.

From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg


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