as in watched
to have an interest or concern for
a teacher who cares what happens to her students long after they leave her classroom
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Recent Examples of cared
His emotional breakdown after his victory was revealed said it all about just how much these celebrities cared about the game.
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2025
Both moms, clearly, worked too much and cared too little about their children to prevent something as horrifying as this from happening.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
But the filmmaker has seen a couple of documentaries about it and cared much more about the human side of the story.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
The one impediment is that Trump has never cared a whole lot about human rights or democracy and is a long-term critic of regime change operations.
—David Smilde, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
The idea Jimmy cared enough to show me that part of his original Key West was a gift.
—Alex Ross, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Nobody cared about our psyches and so, so much stuff flew under the radar.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2025
Nobody cared but the two teams.
—Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
No one cared that the confessions came without counsel.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2025
Both moms, clearly, worked too much and cared too little about their children to prevent something as horrifying as this from happening.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
But the filmmaker has seen a couple of documentaries about it and cared much more about the human side of the story.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
The one impediment is that Trump has never cared a whole lot about human rights or democracy and is a long-term critic of regime change operations.
—David Smilde, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
The idea Jimmy cared enough to show me that part of his original Key West was a gift.
—Alex Ross, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Nobody cared about our psyches and so, so much stuff flew under the radar.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2025
Nobody cared but the two teams.
—Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
No one cared that the confessions came without counsel.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cared
watched
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Nielsen’s streaming ratings cover viewing on TV sets only and don’t include minutes watched on computers or mobile devices.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
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For years, 58-year-old Abel Linares watched his health slip away as kidney disease tightened its grip.—
Ronnie Li,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Cared.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cared. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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