coddling

Example Sentences

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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

Apple trees suffering from coddling moth caterpillars benefit from bagging the fruit at just the right time.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023

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