cares

present tense third-person singular of care
as in watches
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 cares Sharon details how this squad helps Anthropic’s business, too, burnishing its reputation as the AI lab that cares the most about AI safety and perhaps winning it a more receptive ear in the corridors of power. Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025 Nobody cares about Kamala Harris. Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 7 Sep. 2025 The sport is really just a pretext for a tale of cross-generational mutual aid that cares too much for its characters’ wider lives to take them too often to court. Jessica Kiang, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025 Ayala plainly accused Johnson of disregarding the city's police officers, saying the mayor only cares when there's a camera in front of him or when an officer is injured or killed in the line of duty. Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025 The people of New York City deserve a mayor who truly cares. Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025 Those two records are not going to count for the first-week numbers, which everybody cares about. Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 4 Sep. 2025 Those two records are not going to count for the first-week numbers, which everybody cares about. Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2025 The album only passingly cares about the signature dance-pop gunk of its 2010s and ’20s peers and forebears and doesn’t (like songs by Gomez, Addison Rae, and others) spend much time exploring Lana Del Rey as a subgenre. Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
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watches
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  • Rafael Nadal, who retired last year, wore multiple $1 million Richard Mille watches during his time in the sport.
    Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Wide receiver Xavier Worthy #1 of the Kansas City Chiefs watches from the sidelines during the second quarter of the NFL Preseason 2025 game against the Arizona Cardinals at State Farm Stadium on August 09, 2025 in Glendale, Arizona.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025

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“Cares.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cares. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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