coddle

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

In a post on X, he added: "My job is to advance America's national interests, not waste taxpayer money or coddle anti-Americanism."

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025

“I have to coddle this throat of mine,” he decided.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

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

This boundary is crossed when your brother coddles his child while punishing yours.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2021

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

“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

What the reporting revealed was a continuing debate over whether Gen Z is everything from coddled to unfairly stereotyped and how it will fare at work in the future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

He was bullied as a child and coddled by his mother, but never received the unconditional love he craved.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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 it’s worth singling out Eva Jade Halford for her comedic and unsettling turn as the episode's main guest star, playing a coddled devil child.

From Salon ● May 8, 2025

He thought that the previous two generations had been coddled too much because of “mistaken theories of education.”

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

In a culture that would soon put coddling first, Tony gets the opposite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025

Next season, while the Lakers are on vacation, are we going to see Austin Reaves in the playoffs wearing another team’s uniform because the Lakers traded him while coddling an aged star?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 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

Carl Tiflin still grumbled about weakness put into animals and men by too much coddling.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck