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keepers

noun

plural of keeper

as in custodians

a person or group that watches over someone or something how should I know where she is? I'm not her keeper

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a person who takes care of a property sometimes for an absent owner during the winter the keeper of the family's beach house is a local resident who looks after the place

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Recent Examples of keepers DeShields had 76 yards on 13 keepers, including a 7-yard touchdown scamper. — ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026 The training keepers this summer — those who traveled and practiced with the USMNT throughout the World Cup but weren’t rostered — were Kochen and Andrew Rick, a 20-year-old Philadelphia Union backup. — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026 So Wingard amicably parted ways with Godzilla’s keepers in order to reconnect with the types of films that first put him on the map. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026 Cereal keepers are tall food storage containers that usually have a flip-up lid that allows a person to easily pour their cereal into a bowl. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2026 Occupied by volunteer lighthouse keepers who live in the keeper’s quarters each summer, the lighthouse is only accessible by a 2-mile hike (4 miles round trip) along a sandy lakeside trail. — Midwest Living, 18 Aug. 2026 With more than 1,000 suggestions to chose from, here's the name keepers picked. — Finch Walker, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026 Free advice could always be had from tavern keepers, clergymen, neighbors or parents. — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026 Contrary to a popular myth, bees are indifferent to their keepers. — Richard Schiffman, Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2026

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Noun

Undeath have signed with those custodians of heavy music over at Relapse and debuted a new song for the label.

— Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 7 Oct. 2026
Officers emerged from that coup as the architects of the new state and cast themselves as the custodians of its national interest.

— Abdelrahman ElGendy, Time, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of custodians

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According to the post, Kentucky State Police Aviation saw smoke in the area, and wardens and search and rescue personnel were able to access the location, near the headwaters of Cave Run Lake, using a boat.

— Caroline Neal, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Sep. 2026
Game wardens did arrest nine people across Georgia for boating under the influence, the majority of whom were at Lake Lanier.

— Dan Raby, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of wardens

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Every child under 18 with a Social Security number has an account in their name, but parents or guardians must claim the account on an app to receive a one-time deposit of $1,000.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Decades later, however, the guardians of the audio tapes were willing to work with Love Monday.

— Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of guardians

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Shares of Kellermeyer Bergensons Services, whose janitors clean 2 billion square feet of commercial property every day, have been written down to nothing.

— Ellen DiMauro, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Those excluded were primarily nurses, cooks and janitors stationed at state hospitals and prisons.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of janitors

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The overall look suggests a fuel canister, while physical features such as the bump guards that surround the front-panel buttons and the flip-up cover over the reset button recall fighter-jet controls.

— Thomas Soderstrom, PC Magazine, 10 Oct. 2026
Atlanta already had a franchise-record 30-win season behind it and retained a core that included All-Star guards Allisha Gray and Rhyne Howard and two-time WNBA champion Jordin Canada.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026

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Absentee voting is available to the elderly, disabled people and their caretakers, and others.

— Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 30 Sep. 2026
Osiris' caretakers noticed sudden changes in her behavior and breathing patterns the morning of her death, according to the aquarium.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026

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