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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A helicopter was used to reach the patient and allow paramedics to provide urgent medical care.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
With my dad and my aunt and uncle, Medicaid took everything, including their homes, to pay for nursing-home care.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
After Stephen's death, Judith vowed to become a nurse and devoted her life to the care of sick and terminally ill children.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
He expects Nestlé’s revenue growth to reaccelerate as it optimizes its portfolio around areas like coffee and pet care.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
The care lines, the grief lines, the deep hollows of hunger and disease were simply gone.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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