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care

[kair] / kɛər /








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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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A helicopter was used to reach the patient and allow paramedics to provide urgent medical care.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

John Parker, chief executive of the Arboricultural Association, said it was "really positive" to see the council recognising the benefits trees bring to communities and the importance of "best practice in their care".

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Why should investors care about soccer’s premier tournament?

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

The new guidelines call for doctors—from primary care to cardiology—to screen patients for metabolic risk factors and kidney function routinely.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 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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