nanny

Example Sentences

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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

The Department of Homeland Security said it would investigate allegations that Rep. Eric Swalwell hired an undocumented nanny.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 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

“We don’t think you’re a nanny at all, do we, Rita?”

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer