as in watching
to take care of a child while the child's parents are away
She babysits their kids on Saturday nights.
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Neuroscience has long shown that watching another person experience pain activates the same neural regions as experiencing pain ourselves.—
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And there’s Faithfull, watching her past paraded before her with an amused smile and a sense of high irony still intact.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
26 Jan. 2026
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The first demos had obvious chase cars supervising the operations.—
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Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Duneland also brought its special education programs in-house, changing its relationship with the Porter County Education Services, which had been supervising special education teachers.—
Jim Woods,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Babysitting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/babysitting. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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