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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Someone watching Earth from this vantage point would have no way of predicting that intelligent life would someday emerge on this water-rich world.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
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Azarakhsh Jalalvand of Princeton University, the paper’s lead author, compares the concept to an AI watching a silent movie and generating a full soundtrack purely from the visual information.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Oct. 2025
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Some genres may be extremely violent and gory, so parents may want to consider supervising their children's viewing of films or avoid them altogether.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
4 Oct. 2025
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Advertisement Concerns about damage to parks Former park officials and advocates have expressed fear that protected land will be damaged by visitors if sites are left partially open while thousands of workers are furloughed or fired, and therefore absent from supervising lands.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Babysitting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/babysitting. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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