care
Usage
What are other ways to say care?
Care suggests a heaviness of spirit caused by dread, or by the constant pressure of burdensome demands: Poverty weighs a person down with care. Concern implies an anxious sense of interest in something: concern over a friend's misfortune. Worry is an active state of agitated uneasiness and restless apprehension: He was distracted by worry over the stock market.Example Sentences
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The trial heard that, after arriving in the UK as an unaccompanied asylum seeker, Muhamadi was taken into the care of social services in Bradford.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
Bris urged the government to instead continue its reforms of SiS homes, and to strengthen networks around children in institutional care to ensure they do not fall back into criminality on their release.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
NaviHealth, owned by UnitedHealth and used by its insurance unit, had a relatively high denial rate of 14% for nursing-home care.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Corridor care is when patients spend more than 45 minutes waiting for an appropriate place for their care and ministers have pledged to eradicate the practice by 2029.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
They mostly talked to the people of the North End, listened to stories, and took care of the land with assorted donated trash pickers in hand.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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