coddling

Example Sentences

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The final stretch requires more coddling and, of course, cost.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 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

Apple trees suffering from coddling moth caterpillars benefit from bagging the fruit at just the right time.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023

Educational methods often focus on teaching children the value of endurance, dispensing harsh punishments and avoiding anything that looked like coddling.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2023

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