coddle
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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
Mom, acid-eyes: You coddle her, you let her call the shots.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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
I’ve asked him to talk to Alexis about it, but he says she’s just an anxious helicopter mom who coddles Casey, but they’ll both eventually move on from this phase and it’ll be fine.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2021
Where better to transport ourselves than to New Orleans, a city that enchants and delights, but never coddles?
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 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
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
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
For a panda to survive in the wild, a panda must be wild—and that can’t happen if it’s been cuddled and coddled and cared for by humans before it’s released.
From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh
College coddling ends in the real world, writes Callum Borchers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 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
Instead of coddling his precinct commanders, Bratton demanded accountability.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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