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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We pity this Clayface but we don’t care about him much either.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Other safe-haven sectors, including utilities and health care, are leading S&P 500 gains this month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The concerns she said she and others were raising were about the quality of care being provided, and whether it had the necessary medical evidence to underpin it, not her views on gender.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Take Social Security: Coursen proceeds with care when discussing it with clients.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
“Let me ask you”—Gingersnipes interrupted Clare’s spiraling thoughts— “you care about those mushrooms, right?”
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Is Holmes’ husband trying to maneuver the situation because he cares for his wife, or because his behavioral patterns mirror those of Balwani and Holmes’ assailant?
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
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
“They have weight, and this administration cares what business says.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 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
A word that no one cares about is a sowhatonym.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
Garza said he feels no loyalty to either party and wishes there were a third party that showed it actually cared about Latinos and their interests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
The health workers -- two men aged 29 and 35, and a 32-year-old woman -– had cared for the first patient, and had been quarantined since October 9.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
Brooke and Gwilym were cared for by Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board who said their "thoughts and condolences" remained with the family.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 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 wondered if anyone cared enough to make him one.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
She says she honored him by caring for him and that I’m discounting everything she sacrificed.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
Health workers and carers can face a higher risk of Ebola infection because caring for infected patients may bring them into contact with blood and other bodily fluids.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
They’ll do everything from bolting together Cybercabs to mowing your lawn, from tending bars to caring for the elderly and, naturally, assisting in the colonization of the moon and Mars.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, home to about 12,000 sea creatures, is caring this summer for an additional 500 animals seized from wildlife traffickers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Lily’s eyes widen as I explain the seriousness of caring for a pet pineapple.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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