babied
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It also doesn’t include fellow all-star Tony Gonsolin because the Los Angeles Dodgers have so babied his development that he doesn’t have a 20-start season yet.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2022
He’s done so, supposedly, to care for Ginny, 34, who has Down syndrome but doesn’t want to be babied.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
I babied those potatoes so they would not brown.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2022
He and his collaborator, marine biologist Greg Rouse of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, babied the sensitive creatures, which require a constant supply of fresh seawater laden with the microbes they eat.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 27, 2021
Claudia also thought that he was terribly babied and impossibly spoiled.
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
