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 Teenagers should also understand that some AI products are designed to keep users engaged, and that an endlessly attentive chatbot may have incentives that are very different from those of a person who actually cares about them. — Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026 Miller said this year's team cares about and supports one another while pushing each other to improve every day. — Sam Crenshaw, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026 No one cares about Hal, other than Sheriff Kane, but Hal cared about them. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2026 Iowa State’s spending will likely need to grow as Rogers establishes himself within an athletic department that cares deeply about football and basketball. — David Ubben, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026 Betancur explains that the team cares about whether customers can pay their bill at the end of each month. — Jessica Bryant, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026 This community cares about the fact that collections aren’t always behind locked doors. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 14 Sep. 2026 What Showalter took from these talks is that Alonso cares deeply about baseball, and deeply for the people around him — Mets fans included. — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 14 Sep. 2026 Occasionally something is hauled up in a plastic bucket, but Willett never cares to look. — Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
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watches
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  • Without question, this will be the one everyone watches and talks about after the game is over.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The house that watches A modern robot vacuum is a mobile sensor platform.
    — Jihun Joun, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2026

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“Cares.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cares. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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