spoon-feed
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I guess I’m trying to spoon-feed it there a little bit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
He was not going to spoon-feed that to us.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
"I wanted someone to spoon-feed me information in a format that was easy."
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2021
By plastering the walls with imagery as grandiose as Westminster Abbey and as mundane as fading green wallpaper, these projections spoon-feed scene setting that should be left to the set design and audiences’ imaginations.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2020
We must spoon-feed it, and nice nights that will give me!
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852 by William Chambers
She spoon-feeds Knight as his condition worsens, and he eventually becomes her loyal friend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
In another scene, his mum, Irene, spoon-feeds him.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2022
"Where the Crawdads Sing" often spoon-feeds viewers everything they need to know with oh so tender voiceovers, dialogue, and images that simply overstate the obvious.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2022
By monitoring our listening, the algo tries to figure out what we like, then spoon-feeds us some more.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2022
The young woman next to her spoon-feeds the old woman rice gruel.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
He believes viewers should be active participants and not just have everything spoon-fed to them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024
At a scoop shop in downtown Manhattan, a large white poodle was spoon-fed what appeared to be vanilla ice cream.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
Other images include Susan being spoon-fed by her young granddaughter and her lying on her bed having forgotten how to dress herself.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2024
Klein confesses that it sometimes felt as if Wolf had fed Klein's ideas into a "bonkers blender" and then spoon-fed the resulting incoherent mishmash directly to Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2023
He had opened a can of mixed vegetables for her, and then spoon-fed her, so she wouldn’t have to take out her arms.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
My surgeon made sure to facilitate my physical transition as much as possible, spoon-feeding me talking points for insurance coverage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
In her own novels, NDiaye can’t be accused of spoon-feeding readers.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2023
They were also treating them with contempt, spoon-feeding them lies that they themselves were too sophisticated to believe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2023
If spoon-feeding a baby, that means waiting for them to open their mouth and put their head forward to start and stopping when they turn or push food away.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2022
He sat with Rowan, spoon-feeding him soup, and blotting where it spilled from his split, swollen lips.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
