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Recent Examples of Synonyms for governesses
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These include typecasting Black women as jezebels, sapphires and mammies; these depictions, combined with the law enforcement they may be exposed to, increase their vulnerability under the law.
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The Baltimore Sun’s readers have voted on what’s the best in the region, from acupuncturist and garden center to wedding venue and bike shop.
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For example, Podnews, arguably the dominant daily communications tool in podcasting, has an active newsletter subscriber circulation of 33,639 readers worldwide.
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That balancing act became even more challenging when working for some of the families featured on the show, whose expectations often pushed the nannies outside of their comfort zones.
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Parents from working- and middle-class households are more likely to rely on screens compared to high-income parents, who can hire childcare services, such as full-time nannies.
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Which is why bringing in doctors with different backgrounds is so important, according to Ashong.
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Formulated by fertility doctors and OB-GYNs, the clean, vegan formula is designed to support women through every stage of life, from preconception and pregnancy to postpartum and beyond.
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Hamilton faculty were being paid some 30 percent more than those in history and English, the professors in those departments told me again and again.
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Families with wizards and wizards-in-training had a chance to mingle with professors of the magical arts based on themes in the Harry Potter books.
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Medieval schoolmen worrying over Aristotle could be pedants; so could cultivated female salonnières in seventeenth-century Paris.
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As botanists and pedants will tell you, figs are technically a flower, not a fruit.
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On June 27, 2026, at Trinity Pride Fest in Fort Worth, Texas, street preachers Richard Penkoski and David Grisham were subjected to multiple violations of their First Amendment rights while attempting to preach on public property.
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Son of a Preacherman, Choi's latest work, is an autobiographical look at the writer's upbringing in a family of preachers.
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The team combines expertise from engineering science, philosophy and experimental psychology, supported by the University of Oxford senior academics combining academic rigor with Polestar’s automotive expertise.
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These boards, comprised of academics and civic leaders, are tasked with upholding academic integrity while ensuring institutional accountability.
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“Governesses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governesses. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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