care
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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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Trouble erupted in Harehills on the evening of 18 July 2024 after police helped social workers who were taking four children into emergency foster care.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
She encouraged residents to take care of their neighbors during increased raid activity by offering rides to those afraid to drive or use public transit, delivering groceries or walking their neighbors’ children to school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Puerto has written about how she got pregnant in 2022 and had no clear way to leave the state for an abortion, especially since she was helping to take care of her ailing mother.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
Nobody would have said anything about that — and nobody would care if they did.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
He and the other Jesuits care for the refugees—people who have lost their homes—as best they can.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Anyone who cares should start watching carefully, noticing which cases the court takes, what the justices say at argument, and what they do through less visible emergency orders.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
We have no doubt that the parents would benefit from being closer to the older brother’s family as they age, and we believe he genuinely cares about them.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
“Since the summer the earnings tailwinds have started to moderate. Earnings are still strong but the market cares a lot about the second derivative, the earnings revisions.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Some of the guys are on paper hot, but if they’re not good artists, I’m like, who cares?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Dad asks, sounding less like he cares about me and more like he doesn’t want to be cut out of the action.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
"She could have saved her own life. She cared more for the children."
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
To the last, Mr. Levin argues, Shaw cared more about “military concerns” than the “moral crusade” championed by his parents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
The filing noted that Parton “loved and cared for her family very deeply,” while accusing her nephew of threatening to damage her legacy and “inflict reputational and economic harm.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
He would argue on behalf of civil rights and nuclear disarmament, and all these other causes that he cared about.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
Roz wondered if they cared enough to help her escape from the farm.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
His only hope was to stop thinking about his failures, stop caring so much about the results—and simply play ball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
"I say shame on you for not caring about other human beings," Long said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
I also don’t want my sister to feel that caring for mom has wrecked her finances.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
Like many millennials, he’s squeezed tight between caring for aging parents and raising a child.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
I’m experiencing superhuman powers that apparently she knew were coming, and she still wants to be sure we’re caring for those around us.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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