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
Ryman’s narrative lands upon lives crossed in some way with Baum’s book, and cares less about upending fantasy than treating it seriously, as a shade of reality most Americans cannot live without—a necessity that, if devastating, often proves less so than the alternative.
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The New Yorker, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
Come be around him every day and see how much this guy cares.
—Janis Carr, Oc Register, 14 Jan. 2026
The 23-year-old Smith-Njigba cares more about team success than individual accolades.
—Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
Sure, pundits and Twitter philosophers love to portray bowl games as irrelevant relics of the past that nobody cares about anymore.
—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2026
The Minnesota Department of Children, Youth and Families visited nine of the day cares from the video, finding children present at eight of them.
—Anthony Bettin, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
Right now, Kernza is a fairly pricey grain to work with, but Frana cares about conservation practices, regenerative agriculture and wants to support the endeavor.
—Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch, 6 Jan. 2026
How naïve must Trump be to believe that Putin cares about Ukraine’s well-being after invading it, killing thousands of its people, kidnapping tens of thousands of Ukrainian children back to Russia, and continuing to bomb civilian apartment buildings while pretending to negotiate a peace deal?
—Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 6 Jan. 2026
Frank’s just seen a possible end for him and it’s taken away, arguably, the only person Frank really cares about.
—Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 5 Jan. 2026
The New Yorker, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
Come be around him every day and see how much this guy cares.
—Janis Carr, Oc Register, 14 Jan. 2026
The 23-year-old Smith-Njigba cares more about team success than individual accolades.
—Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
Sure, pundits and Twitter philosophers love to portray bowl games as irrelevant relics of the past that nobody cares about anymore.
—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2026
The Minnesota Department of Children, Youth and Families visited nine of the day cares from the video, finding children present at eight of them.
—Anthony Bettin, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
Right now, Kernza is a fairly pricey grain to work with, but Frana cares about conservation practices, regenerative agriculture and wants to support the endeavor.
—Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch, 6 Jan. 2026
How naïve must Trump be to believe that Putin cares about Ukraine’s well-being after invading it, killing thousands of its people, kidnapping tens of thousands of Ukrainian children back to Russia, and continuing to bomb civilian apartment buildings while pretending to negotiate a peace deal?
—Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 6 Jan. 2026
Frank’s just seen a possible end for him and it’s taken away, arguably, the only person Frank really cares about.
—Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 5 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cares
watches
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Meanwhile, an exhausted fan base watches on.—
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
12 Jan. 2026
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If anybody watches it, they’re so moved by it.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Cares.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cares. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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