caretaking

Example Sentences

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But unlike the tradwife with her gaggle of youngsters underfoot, the orangutan mother sustains this intense caretaking by spacing her kids seven or so years apart.

From Slate • May 10, 2026

I learned about all kinds of cooperative parents while researching the evolution of caretaking for my new book, The Creatures’ Guide to Caring.

From Slate • May 10, 2026

“When you look at the jobs this administration is making harder to access, they are the caretaking professions,” Bañez said.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

That isn’t to say that Michaela doesn’t have her troubles — indeed, her neediness, which expresses itself as caretaking, resembles Devon’s.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2025

The caretaking skills were no doubt those of Fiona, on his left; he remembered noticing the tenderness with which she had bathed the Old.

From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry