BABYSIT Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

babysit

verb

Definition of babysit

as in to watch

to take care of a child while the child's parents are away She babysits their kids on Saturday nights.

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Recent Examples of babysit After her mom came over to babysit the children, Katelyn was on the highway, waiting to learn which hospital to go to, when her mom called and told her to return home. — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026 If a price feels off, movement just stops, and the owner is not going to babysit a slow mover for three months. — Joel Goldstein, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026 At a time when Tesla’s carmaking business is mired in a multiyear decline, the company’s market value has soared to new highs almost exclusively on the billionaire CEO’s fantastical promises of a future in which all cars will drive themselves and robots will babysit the kids. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 June 2026 Except on Mondays, when the church’s youth fellowship met, Adele was expected to come straight home from school and babysit her brothers. — Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for babysit

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Also watch the bill share of the debt, which Treasury reports each quarter to its advisory committee.

— James Broughel, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
And even if Vic Fangio tells us to calm down with the Uar Bernard and Joshua Weru storyline, their development is still fascinating to watch.

— Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026

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The new cub's arrival marks the first time Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium has had a lion birth since July 2020, when lioness Abana mothered three cubs.

— Finch Walker, USA Today, 17 June 2026
Virginia Dulles was the opposite of Louanne Bixby—even a hundred children couldn’t exhaust her need to mother them.

— Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

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