coddle
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I just think one of the cruelest things you can do is to coddle your child in a false reality versus helping them figure out the real reality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Does Prada want to coddle you in an unravelling world?
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
But when things are rough, we don’t have to coddle each other.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2025
In a post on X, he added: "My job is to advance America's national interests, not waste taxpayer money or coddle anti-Americanism."
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025
Mom, acid-eyes: You coddle her, you let her call the shots.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
This boundary is crossed when your brother coddles his child while punishing yours.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2021
In an interview with USA Today, Montana spoke on the lack of mental preparation that QB’s are entering the League with — suggesting contemporary college football’s coaching as a system that coddles its play-callers.
From Fox News ● Oct. 8, 2021
Things have definitely gotten weird, but the weirdness isn’t because Casey’s scared of Jacob or because Alexis coddles Casey.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2021
All of which meant that Gross was a natural for “The Last of Us Part II,” a game that coddles no one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2020
“Shall we have a look at that horse then? I doubt it’s anything serious. Marlena coddles them terribly. Oh, here’s the little lady now. Come here, darling,” he calls brightly.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
He was bullied as a child and coddled by his mother, but never received the unconditional love he craved.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Better equipped to mother Boy No. 2 or stricken with learned helplessness from being coddled by an expert on my phone day in and day out?
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
To her, he was always “AC,” the baby of the family who was hopelessly coddled by their mother after he temporarily lost his ability to talk after a childhood surgery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2025
He will not be coddled like a king.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
He thought that the previous two generations had been coddled too much because of “mistaken theories of education.”
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
Indeed, Secretary Warfighter’s need for constant coddling is being ever more severely exposed as this scandal unfolds.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025
The final stretch requires more coddling and, of course, cost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
Next season, while the Lakers are on vacation, are we going to see Austin Reaves in the playoffs wearing another team’s uniform because the Lakers traded him while coddling an aged star?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2025
When we’re formulating policies for children as a whole rather than coddling our own little angels, we fall scandalously short.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
He generally liked me, tended to treat me, I thought, as he might some rising young VP in his Boston-based holding company, alternatingly coddling and browbeating me.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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