coddling

Example Sentences

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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

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

From the first measures of this live recording of the premiere at Minnesota Opera, conducted with impressive cohesion by Lidiya Yankovskaya, the swarming strings and piercing winds affirm that there will be no coddling.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2023

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