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care of

idiom

: at the address of
You can write to him care of his fan club.

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By the time the government began providing substantial funding for states’ child protective services and foster-care programs, in the nineteen-sixties, religious charities—predominantly Protestant and Catholic ones—had been overseeing the out-of-home care of vulnerable children for centuries. Kristen Martin, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025 Watson noted that when his grandmother died, the care of his aunt fell to his mother and her other siblings. Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 21 Nov. 2025 Jackson remains under the care of doctors while managing his progressive supranuclear palsy, or PSP, a neurological disorder. Shardaa Gray, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025 The result show that one reading may not be enough, and there may be a need for more scalable solutions for better monitoring and care of hypertension around the world, Song added. Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for care of

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“Care of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/care%20of. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.

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