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sitter
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sitter
1. a person who is posing for his or her portrait to be painted, carved, etc.
2. a broody hen or other bird that is sitting on its eggs to hatch them
3. anyone, other than the medium, taking part in a seance

Sitter
Willem de . 1872--1934, Dutch astronomer, who calculated the size of the universe and conceived of it as expanding


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The nearest thing she has to a friend is Euphoria, a robot her father created to act as mother, housekeeper, babysitter, and confidant.
Officer Markowski located a babysitter who was unaware that the child had left.
One of these journalism pieces went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Report: Nigel Jaquiss' series in the Willamette Week exposing a decades-old secret about Oregon's former governor Neil Goldschmidt who had sexually abused a teenage babysitter when he was mayor of Portland.
 
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