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were babysitting
verb
To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.
Exact(13)
Two adults were babysitting the children at the time of the shooting.
There had been burglaries, credit cards and jewelry missing from the bedroom drawers of houses where local girls were babysitting.
"Another couple said the grandparents were babysitting their children especially so they could have a quiet weekend away.
Soon, Rosa Young, 63, who had just arrived from Michigan, and Alan Spanier, a 73-year-old former Manhattanite, were babysitting for the children and picking them up from school.
We were babysitting for our eldest daughter.
The teens were babysitting the child, Trujillo's half-sister Zoe, while her mother was at work.
Similar(47)
It's babysitting.
Ms. Jefferds was babysitting.
But that's babysitting.
It was babysitting.
"I was 14, and I was babysitting.
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