coddle

Does Prada want to coddle you in an unravelling world?

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

A good fit for: Cooks who don’t want to coddle their pans and don’t mind a little oil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

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 rapped out, thinking, You can't coddle these sick people, it's the worst thing for them, it'll spoil them to bits.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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

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

Dunk points out that his other two coddled sons, failures both, never lacked comfort.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026

Asif Ali and Saagar Shaikh star as the two leads, Mir and Raj, respectively, Baba’s coddled sons, who eventually learn what their father really did for a living.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025

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

But the report only briefly mentions grade inflation—which it calls a “flattening of distinction”—and fails to connect how coddling students leaves them less prepared for the workplace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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

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

Granville was a temperamental animal who needed coddling, and little time was left over for the Seabiscuits and Grogs of the stable.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand