spoon-feed
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As usual, Wiseman doesn’t spoon-feed us details of who’s who and where’s where; he trusts us to get our bearings over an effortlessly engrossing four hours.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
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
One of the things I most admire about “The Ingenious Language” is that it doesn’t spoon-feed the reader.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 2, 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
Mantel never spoon-feeds us, never makes it particularly easy.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 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
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
"I spoon-fed the police," she explains with exasperation as she shows us print-outs of text messages and voicemails.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025
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
These are sympathetic and moving sentiments to be sure, but being spoon-fed these messages isn’t all that interesting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
One of them, Shamim Salim, 26, was being spoon-fed soup by a well-wisher.
From Reuters ● Apr. 26, 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
In a 2022 interview with The Times, the “Camp Rock” star declared that she was “done spoon-feeding myself to the media.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
Corkins cautions against turning self-feeding and spoon-feeding into dueling camps.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2022
Med-jacks are spoon-feeding her whatever soups Frypan can cook up, checking her vitals and such.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
