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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We currently do not pay for child care, as a relative provides full-time care during the weekdays.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026
Government inspections of nursing homes “found alarming instances of inappropriate use of antipsychotic drugs and revealed vulnerabilities in care that have implications for the wider nursing home population,” the HHS inspector general’s office reports.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
A judge set bail at $150,000 and issued a protective order prohibiting Hart from having any animals in his care.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
The Southern Health Trust apologised for the stress and worry caused to the Lonergan family but said the decision to withdraw the care package was due to a lack of social care staff.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
“I do not care about your eyeballs,” she hissed in his ear.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
