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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Corridor care is when patients spend more than 45 minutes waiting for an appropriate place for their care and ministers have pledged to eradicate the practice by 2029.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
Bris urged the government to instead continue its reforms of SiS homes, and to strengthen networks around children in institutional care to ensure they do not fall back into criminality on their release.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
The investigators found that most people didn’t appeal when insurers denied their doctors’ request for access to a nursing home—specifically, a skilled nursing facility, the type of nursing-home care covered by Medicare.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
The trial heard that, after arriving in the UK as an unaccompanied asylum seeker, Muhamadi was taken into the care of social services in Bradford.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
“I couldn’t care less what he wants right now.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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