Example Sentences

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If it had not been such an extraordinary case, no one would have cared or noticed Hill’s transgressions, Busbee said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

Richard Murrison, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said Kol had been "catastrophically failed by the very people who should have cared for him most".

From BBC • May 11, 2026

"We should have cared long before it affects our pocket," she said.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

The true death toll is impossible to know, in part because clinics that would have cared for people and counted the dead were shuttered.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025

I should not have cared if I had been alone.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier