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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Gupton and Contorno said the cost makes sense financially because they save on off-hours trips to urgent-care clinics, get better preventive care and don’t need as many referrals to specialists.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
“My folks left a special care trust for my brother, who had cerebral palsy. I am the trustee, along with my son,” she wrote.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026
“But delayed parenthood often comes with increased reliance on fertility care, and today, too many people who want children face significant barriers to accessing it.”
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026
The group hopes to improve the rare habitat by carrying out veteran tree care, glade creation and invasive-species control.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
It keeps talking, like a boat motor with no shut-off valve, saying more stuff I want him to know, even though most of me knows he doesn’t care.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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