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 investigators found that most people didn’t appeal when insurers denied their doctors’ request for access to a nursing home—specifically, a skilled nursing facility, the type of nursing-home care covered by Medicare.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Hochman’s pause, if granted, would apply only to the abuse cases stemming from juvenile halls, which make up the bulk of the lawsuits, and not the cases arising from foster care or the children’s shelter.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
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
They are usually ordered into detention facilities known as SiS homes, which are tasked with mandatory care and rehabilitation, rather than a punitive system like prison.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
The home in Bloemendaal served ex-prisoners and other war victims exclusively until 1950, when it also began to receive people in need of care from the population at large.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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