cosset

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

Years before his father had given him a cosset lamb, and now he was the owner of a dozen sheep.

From Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance by Charles Carleton Coffin

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

My musical nephew there cossets himself up in his room, while I, at his age, was out making my way in the world.

From Edelweiss A Story by Berthold Auerbach

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

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

“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

Much of his life was spent in the cosseted luxury of a five-star hotel.

From BBC ● May 14, 2023

“We’ve petted and cosseted her too much,” said Aunt Jerrold to herself.

From Witness to the Deed by George Manville Fenn

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

In spaces where provocation is essential — opinion columns, universities and law schools in particular — it discourages the challenging of orthodoxy in favor of the comfortable cosseting of preexisting views.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2023

Her wide, defiantly plain face and unruly emotionalism seemed to reject the cosseting, glamorizing gaze of Hollywood cameras.

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2020

As she approached adolescence, her mother’s obsessive cosseting only became more pronounced.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 1, 2016

Rosamund believed in plenty of air for her child, and no "cosseting"; she laughed to scorn, but genially, the nurse's prejudice against "the night air."

From In the Wilderness by Robert Smythe Hichens