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I just think one of the cruelest things you can do is to coddle your child in a false reality versus helping them figure out the real reality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Does Prada want to coddle you in an unravelling world?

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

But when things are rough, we don’t have to coddle each other.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2025

This is all so he can coddle his sulky, wild teenage son while expecting Carrie to limit all extracurricular cuddles to her adopted kitty, Shoe.

From Salon ● May 29, 2025

There were fertile red meadows of epithelial tissue to catch and coddle a cancer cell.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

A ballroom dancer who coddles his pet rats—Fred and Ginger—Declan rides a moped that his colleague, Sara Xiu, describes as “that pitiful hair-dryer on wheels.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

In Zimmerman’s final pick, Rose’s mother visits and friction ensues when Rose coddles her too much.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025

In an interview with USA Today, Montana spoke on the lack of mental preparation that QB’s are entering the League with — suggesting contemporary college football’s coaching as a system that coddles its play-callers.

From Fox News ● Oct. 8, 2021

That year, Bryan Curtis used the incident as the central hook for a Grantland feature about how the Thunder organization coddles and shields its players from the media.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2019

“Shall we have a look at that horse then? I doubt it’s anything serious. Marlena coddles them terribly. Oh, here’s the little lady now. Come here, darling,” he calls brightly.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

“The idea that our kids are somehow more coddled is simply not true,” Peterson said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Better equipped to mother Boy No. 2 or stricken with learned helplessness from being coddled by an expert on my phone day in and day out?

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

But the culture has been kind of coddled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025

The sauce, sweet from simmered-until-tender broccoli and savory with loads of garlic and anchovy, tastes lovingly coddled, like you cooked that broccoli forever.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

There’s no use making the tea till Dad gets home because it will be stewed, coddled, boiled and unfit to drink.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

Yet while the justices care not a fig for coddling the president, they do have a deep interest in the reputation of their own institution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

Indeed, Secretary Warfighter’s need for constant coddling is being ever more severely exposed as this scandal unfolds.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025

The hosts of the summit treated the university, battered by accusations of coddling antisemitism, as a business-school case study on leadership in higher education, complete with a slide presentation on its plummeting reputation.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

When we’re formulating policies for children as a whole rather than coddling our own little angels, we fall scandalously short.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

As a Russian, Boukreev came from a tough, proud, hardscrabble climbing culture that did not believe in coddling the weak.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer