cosset
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In contrast, the high-ticket productions on Broadway more often than not aim to cosset.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2019
There are other reasons for governments to cosset the big four.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2018
She wonders if there was something in Farquharson, by contrast, that brought out “the maternal in women, our tendency to cosset, to infantilise.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2016
Supporters of scooters say they offer something extremely valuable - freedom, countering the perceived tendency of many risk-averse parents to cosset their children indoors.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2015
He was an intellectual cosset, and educated in a way that made the English pedagogues stand aghast.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Elbert Hubbard
Yet The Man Who Knew Infinity also shows the place as a golden doll’s house that cossets the don he plays, Trinity College maths professor GH Hardy.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2016
A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses.
From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2010
No, she calls the Plaza's elegant Edwardian Room, an oasis that cossets the wealthy with candles and linen napkins.
From Time Magazine Archive
By and by I grew up to be a big girl, and then, what with tending the sick sheep, and bringing up the cossets, I had plenty to do.
From Minnie's Pet Lamb by Madeline Leslie
And how could any live creeter brook the agony them long steel cossets wuz dealin’ the wearer?
From Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Marietta Holley
An otherwise urban-dwelling sophisticate, he cultivated a rustic demeanor for France’s benefit, uncharacteristically donning a coonskin hat and simple clothes to impress cosseted aristocrats and ordinary Parisians alike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
She may have grown up in showbusiness, working on multiple Disney shows before launching her music career, but she's neither cosseted nor precious.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
“But I seem to have been cosseted in some way that I couldn’t get to the writers’ room.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
I cosseted my weary garden with clover, practiced patience, saw the vanity of overwork.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2023
She watched over us, gave us needed reproof and commendation, rarely cosseted us, but rather made us laugh at what many would have considered the hardships of our lot.
From A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) by Lucy Larcom
Catherine essentially becomes a character in a Sofia Coppola movie who grows increasingly trapped and anguished in proportion to her cosseting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
“You’ve got to have a sense of risk and excitement,” she says, “otherwise we’re cosseting our kids in a bubble-wrapped world.”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 31, 2019
When the vastly unqualified Dell stumbles into a job as Phillip’s caregiver, he’s rewarded with an eyebrow-raising salary and a depressed patient who needs entertaining more than cosseting.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2019
Experienced for the first time, this covert cosseting feels slightly melancholy, like an episode of Cold War fiction involving futile charades and a likely defenestration.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 5, 2016
Every kind of little cosseting was, therefore, applied to him.
From Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope
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