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as in caregiver
a person who has responsibility for the care of another
most primary caretakers of elderly parents are women
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The hippo has become an internet sensation since her caretakers began uploading videos of her going about her day, which mostly includes napping, walking around her enclosure and chewing her caretakers' knees while being hosed down for a shower.
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Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024
Since then, Neal has been working tirelessly to restore the structure, passing ownership on to 10 investors and taking over as the caretaker and head of a non-profit, FPTower Inc., tasked with keeping the tower from falling into the ocean.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 11 Sep. 2024
Affective scenes like these capture the film’s central conflict: the tension between the labor of individual caretakers and institutions whose origins can be traced to European concepts.
—Cici Peng, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
So look for the Packers to give Willis a lot of run-pass options, short and intermediate throws and ask him to be nothing more than a caretaker for the offense.
—Rob Reischel, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
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Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024
Since then, Neal has been working tirelessly to restore the structure, passing ownership on to 10 investors and taking over as the caretaker and head of a non-profit, FPTower Inc., tasked with keeping the tower from falling into the ocean.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 11 Sep. 2024
Affective scenes like these capture the film’s central conflict: the tension between the labor of individual caretakers and institutions whose origins can be traced to European concepts.
—Cici Peng, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
So look for the Packers to give Willis a lot of run-pass options, short and intermediate throws and ask him to be nothing more than a caretaker for the offense.
—Rob Reischel, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
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“Caretaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caretaker. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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