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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“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
From the time she was a young girl, Mary Kay’s schedule added care for her invalid father, meal preparation and housekeeping to her schoolwork.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Following Noah's death, the education watchdog Ofsted issued the site a month's deadline to ensure staff received training that specifically addressed the care of babies.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
Wherever the soul was, whatever realm she had been pulled into, she was in the care of the Afterlife now.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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