coddling
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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
But, at the same time, Munn is someone who does not want any special treatment or kid-glove coddling because of what she has experienced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
The notion of creating a safe space for an audience to experience a work of theater tends to provoke the tough-guy purists, because it sounds like coddling.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
He generally liked me, tended to treat me, I thought, as he might some rising young VP in his Boston-based holding company, alternatingly coddling and browbeating me.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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