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

An undeniable aggravation of the natural tendency to caress and cosset such products of the writer's literary industry as have met with special favor.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 by Various

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

And how could any live creeter brook the agony them long steel cossets wuz dealin’ the wearer?

From Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Marietta Holley

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

She may have grown up in showbusiness, working on multiple Disney shows before launching her music career, but she's neither cosseted nor precious.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

The characters she plays in that show and in this film are financially cosseted but psychologically adrift, bumping along from one middle-aged frustration, or humiliation, to the next.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 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

Mr. Mortimer had never been so looked after, cosseted, and comforted for his early start as the next morning, nor the children found their mother so patient and affectionate.

From Frivolous Cupid by Anthony Hope

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

Instead of a business brain cosseting the creative genius in his ivory tower, Mr. Radboy is more like a wavelength sparring partner, helping to construct a permeable scaffolding for their world.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2020

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

From The Guardian ● Oct. 1, 2016

Keen can look after him, with you and Mrs. Goodman to do the cosseting.

From East of the Shadows by Mrs. Hubert Barclay