dote
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Mostly, they dote on the kids, and cousins reconnect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
Actor-comedian Anthony Anderson is a proud mama’s boy and loves to dote on his mother, Doris.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
As heartwarming as it is to see Andrés kiss and hug and dote on his daughters, the interactions are, literally, made for TV.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 26, 2022
He handles all the boring life matters like bills for us and I dote on him.
From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2022
Mam runs into the shop and tells the women behind the counter, I’m sorry.The woman says, Lord, he’s a dote.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
She dotes on her husband, who suffers from dementia and comes to terms with all the paraphernalia and recordings from her career that she hoarded for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Graves, who travels with his wife and dotes on his grandchildren, says he had a very successful career and has a very full life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2025
But Shaimaa dotes on Zeina, calling her “princess,” hiding her tears - and her fears for the future - from her.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2024
Despite his political career, Bazoum has retained his people’s devotion to livestock, keeping camels that he dotes on, Liman-Tinguiri said.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
“It would be a grand thing for one of those girls, wouldn’t it? Sallie says they are very intimate now, and the old man quite dotes on them.”
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Of course, ABC would make one of its core players the gauzy focus of a post-Oscars special, doted on by many of the 22 women who came before Paul.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
Known to the children as “aunty” or “grandma,” Johnson would treat them to dips in the pool at the Raffles and doted on them at the center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
"He doted on his granddaughters - he really did," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025
She doted on her cats and her exotic orchids, and was known to neighbors for her delicious homemade bread.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
Sister Federica doted on her father and gave him the smoothest shaves he’d ever had.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
"So am I," Kim replied, doting on the doll.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
After the raids, the quinceañera shops, normally packed with girls and doting mothers on weekends, often sat empty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
He didn’t even mention Artemis in his most recent State of the Union speech, instead doting on the U.S.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2026
Martin, from Woodford Green, east London, was described in court as a "doting and loving grandmother" who had mobility issues that left her with a limp.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
Luckily for Penelope, back on land Captain Strøm was the doting father to a houseful of tall, strong-limbed daughters, and it was not in his great Nordic heart to toss her overboard.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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