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
A short yelp and hard thud later, he was sprawled in the floor, his castmates rushing forward to coddle him, leaving Old Petey and Young Petey alone to talk.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
In Zimmerman’s final pick, Rose’s mother visits and friction ensues when Rose coddles her too much.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025
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
Where better to transport ourselves than to New Orleans, a city that enchants and delights, but never coddles?
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2021
That year, Bryan Curtis used the incident as the central hook for a Grantland feature about how the Thunder organization coddles and shields its players from the media.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2019
“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
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
But the culture has been kind of coddled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025
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
The sauce, sweet from simmered-until-tender broccoli and savory with loads of garlic and anchovy, tastes lovingly coddled, like you cooked that broccoli forever.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
Sometimes they use the same tea leaves over and over and Mam says the tea is stewed, coddled and boiled.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
College coddling ends in the real world, writes Callum Borchers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Indeed, Secretary Warfighter’s need for constant coddling is being ever more severely exposed as this scandal unfolds.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 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
“Romney hadn’t yet fully reckoned with his own coddling of Trump and what role he may have played in elevating him,” Coppins wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
Carl Tiflin still grumbled about weakness put into animals and men by too much coddling.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
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