as in to administer (to)
to attend to the needs and comforts of
volunteered to help minister to the sick at the local hospice
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Other factors include minimum wage hikes that raised expenses for lower-wage workers, including nursing home employees and home health aides.—
Ken Alltucker,
USA Today,
12 Mar. 2026 -
Every hockey player is nursing bumps and bruises at this time of year but all of McAvoy’s have seemingly been directly to his face.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
11 Mar. 2026
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One way to combat that, as a gardener, is to start plants by seed instead of buying plants that someone else has started, watered and mothered for months.—
Henry Homeyer,
The Providence Journal,
13 Mar. 2026
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Barrington Elementary For more than a decade, Claudia Lopez joined other Barrington Elementary School mothers to cook a meal of turkey, potato salad, mashed potatoes, cornbread and chocoflan for Thanksgiving.—
Keri Heath,
Austin American Statesman,
23 Feb. 2026
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The doctor explained how Moïse had to be listed under several aliases while being treated.—
Tania Francois,
CBS News,
13 Mar. 2026
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It is officially recognized as sovereign by only 11 other nations, but is treated as de facto independent by Western powers such as the United States.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Minister (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minister%20%28to%29. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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