care
Usage
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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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So what do we know about the failings in post-death care and the mortuary service?
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Most nights, the family assistant takes care of bath time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Research shows that adults who estrange themselves from relatives often do so "with a great amount of care and consideration over time," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
During school hours, the role includes managing schedules, coordinating appointments and activities, running errands and overseeing day-to-day household administration—then transitions to child care when the kids return home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
I don’t care about my form, I just need to pound the crap out of something and the water, I know, will forgive me.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
The label she cares more about is actor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
The simple reason why the facts aren’t known is that the American public doesn’t care enough to tune in, or at least those who run the media corporations don’t think the American public cares.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
Not everyone cares for authenticity in the timbre of a narrator’s voice, and so we must brace for an expanding market of stories told by artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Rendon also showed the psychologist a small cat that was trapped under the rubble which he now cares for.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
She seems like a good teacher, one who really cares.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
Namtip Tubsook and her husband Suwitcha Sirililung left behind two children, aged four and five, who are now being cared for by their grandmother, Nid.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
And within 30 minutes, you had memes and people talking about the Elf and pretending they cared about the Elf.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Meanwhile, Luke Winkie talked with several newly minted fans who never cared about the sport—until they discovered Norway’s delightfully dorky star player Erling Haaland.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026
Smart glasses could be made more attractive to a mass audience if tech companies cared to.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
She assured me the children would be cared for.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
Bateman worries audiences may eventually stop caring whether a performance comes from a human being or AI.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
The researchers propose that when paternal care evolved from maternal care, it likely reflects a form of sexual selection known as 'enhanced fecundity', in which females favor males that are already caring for eggs.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
He was just a young man looking at a symbol of power and not caring much about who that power was used to subjugate.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026
These men and women, some of the most caring people I have met, are confined in cramped cells and sleep on floor mats in blistering heat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
She did all this calmly, without seeming effort, for caring for children in this way was second nature to her and left her mind free to wander.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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