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as in caregiver
a person who has responsibility for the care of another
most primary caretakers of elderly parents are women
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Recent Examples of caretaker
But Posey is seeking a strong personality, not a dugout caretaker.
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Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Reports indicate the $5 million set aside for Reggie is to be used to provide for a private home and caretakers.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 17 Oct. 2025
But Linda is a caretaker at this point.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Don’t become their emotional caretaker.
—Evy Poumpouras, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
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Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Reports indicate the $5 million set aside for Reggie is to be used to provide for a private home and caretakers.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 17 Oct. 2025
But Linda is a caretaker at this point.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Don’t become their emotional caretaker.
—Evy Poumpouras, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for caretaker
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caretaker
Noun
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But cities tend to be where people go out looking for birds, trying to find them before the rats get them, or before custodians sweep them away.—
NPR,
NPR,
17 Oct. 2025
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The Best Picture winner features Sally Hawkins as Elise, a mute custodian who works in a secret government facility that’s currently housing a strange fish creature (Doug Jones) who’s being studied by scientists and the military.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The list should include contact information for loved ones, an immigration attorney, a hotline, schools, caregivers and employers.—
Alyssa N. Salcedo,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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In some cases, only people with limited mobility, the elderly, caregivers and those with no means to leave have stayed behind, the report says.—
Catherine Nicholls,
CNN Money,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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To complete the hat-trick just after half-time, one-on-one with the ’keeper, was great.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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Chapple said DynamoDB is a record-keeper that helps track user information and store key data.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Some have lost a parent or guardian and suddenly must navigate a world that feels uncertain and overwhelming.—
Laura Rivera,
Denver Post,
23 Oct. 2025
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Both biological parents and those with parental responsibility over children, including legal guardians and foster parents, would be eligible for the exemption.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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One August morning, after more than five years and five thousand attempts, a lab tech named Cliff Kortman—who had originally been hired as a janitor but came to run many of the lampricide tests—reported a different outcome.—
Katie Thornton,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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Qing Yuan had seen many of these tiny corpses, pinkish, yellowish, tin-gray, curled up, always seemingly asleep, tossed by janitors into fires outside the building.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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Falco is introduced to the world Kingstown as Nina Hobbs, the new warden running the prison where Kyle will be sent to.—
Demetrius Patterson,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Oct. 2025
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The lawsuit named the governor, the director and deputy director of the MDOC, and about three dozen employees, from corrections officers to the warden.—
Christina Hall,
Freep.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Caretaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caretaker. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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