coddle
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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
“Radical transparency” and “radical acceptance” are terms that have been co-opted by TikTokers and AI chatbots to coddle people with therapy-speak until the terminology has lost all its meaning.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 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
“That’s exactly the kind of thing I mean! Sit down. He won’t get well any faster if you coddle him.”
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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
Even though she is publicly coddled, the media is never right.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 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
On the football field, Boobie was frequently reassured and coddled.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
Indeed, Secretary Warfighter’s need for constant coddling is being ever more severely exposed as this scandal unfolds.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025
The final stretch requires more coddling and, of course, cost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 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
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
As a Russian, Boukreev came from a tough, proud, hardscrabble climbing culture that did not believe in coddling the weak.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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