coddle
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Does Prada want to coddle you in an unravelling world?
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
The screenwriter goes out of their way to coddle the audience, showing them everything they just watched, but with an added layer of new information to fill in the gaps so the twist makes sense.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 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
“Ah, don’t coddle me. I know that my pronunciation is atrocious.”
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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
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
All of which meant that Gross was a natural for “The Last of Us Part II,” a game that coddles no one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2020
“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
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
He’s Theo James’ character in “The Gentlemen,” which is worth mentioning because that Netflix series makes the coddled aristocracy look suave and more action-ready than most of them are.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2024
Eventually even the most coddled child has to grow up.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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
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
Carl Tiflin still grumbled about weakness put into animals and men by too much coddling.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
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