How to Use childcare in a Sentence

childcare

noun
  • That’s gonna cost, uh, 26.7 million over the next two years in childcare.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 13 July 2023
  • The two used the app to message each other about childcare.
    Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 25 July 2022
  • Those with school-age kids may need childcare once school is out.
    Katia Hetter, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
  • On the first floor will be a café that will serve as a workspace, as well as a drop-in childcare center.
    Thomas Birmingham, The Courier-Journal, 16 Aug. 2022
  • His wife, also a film worker, turned to childcare to pay the bills.
    Andrew Hay, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2023
  • In fact, the cost of childcare has been steadily rising over many years.
    Jill Schlesinger, The Mercury News, 17 June 2024
  • There’s a big crisis around childcare; there aren’t enough providers.
    Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • California is one of the priciest states in the U.S. for childcare.
    Cortlynn Stark, Sacramento Bee, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Bustillos is one of many people in the state who have had their horizons widened thanks to free childcare.
    Bryce Covert, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2023
  • There’s no doubt that women feel the effects of the childcare crisis more keenly than men.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024
  • How has one couple run a home childcare business for three decades?
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 July 2023
  • Has childcare pushed you to quit your job or delay finding work?
    Samantha Masunagastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • At the time, Koike said the policy changes will help parents be more able to balance childcare and work.
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune Asia, 12 Dec. 2024
  • There was a big jump in July in tuition, school fees and childcare, which were 6.4% higher than in May and 9.1% above a year ago.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The city ranked 20th in health and safety and 43rd for education and childcare.
    Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2024
  • When Romero had her first child in high school, finding a way to afford childcare and go to school was stressful.
    Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 23 Jan. 2024
  • By and large, those childcare workers have not returned.
    Time, 11 July 2023
  • But women—the group that does the most domestic labor and childcare at home—have been the most overtaxed.
    Glamour, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Even among high-income economies, women still spend twice as much time than men on childcare.
    Corinne Post, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • But going to the office isn’t worth the time and hassle of driving and arranging childcare, and no one can have it all.
    Anna Kramer, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
  • And yet make no mistake: America is still in the midst of a severe childcare crisis.
    TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The family also has a live-in au pair from France who also helps with childcare.
    Trey Williams, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The mayor said the suspects had broken a trust people have with childcare workers.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • And, a big goal for 2024: &Mother is hoping to bring childcare to runners who are parents.
    Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The money will help women in need with things like debt, utilities, childcare, and rent.
    Angel Diaz, Billboard, 21 May 2024
  • Brookes was called by a relative at the childcare center regarding the snake.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Like not having paid leave and being stressed about having to go back to work, and leaving my children, and childcare, and all of that.
    Bethany Mollenkof, Glamour, 29 Sep. 2022
  • In addition to work, the couple share household and childcare tasks.
    Sun Sentinel, 26 July 2022
  • The cost to rent a two-bedroom apartment in Chicago and the rising cost of childcare, Mark said, were not affordable.
    Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 9 July 2022
  • The childcare center has been seeking to expand and will occupy a 2,500-square-foot space.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2023

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