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cares

verb

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 Benevolence beliefs can be understood as feeling that someone has goodwill toward you and cares about your well-being. — John C. Besley, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2026 Or who simply cares about the rights of people to determine their future and that of their land, particularly in a country where those freedoms have been restricted in the past. — Naomi Tomky, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Aug. 2026 Is the important bit just to have kits that look good and nobody really cares if the away is the inverse of the home? — Nick Miller, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026 There's a nearly-limitless fountain of money available if the league is able to grow a serious permanent foothold in Europe, for example, and there is nothing the NFL cares more about than increasing its revenue. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2026 Michael Johnston, who lives a half mile north of TCU on Rogers Avenue, believes the university cares about its neighbors. — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Aug. 2026 The platform now favors showing a post to a small audience that genuinely cares about the topic over a large audience that doesn't. — Tammy Homegardner, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 But knowing there's still someone out there who loves and cares about you — and learning the basics of life — has helped. — Rashad Williams, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026 Everything Rhaenyra cares about — power, dragons, legacy — is ugly. — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026

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Unbeknownst to them, a mysterious entity watches from high above with Godlike judgment.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2026
Zhang Jianxin watches shoppers fist-bump with a shiny, gyrating, humanoid robot at his showroom in China’s southern city of Guangzhou.

— Ann Scott Tyson, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Aug. 2026

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