Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cocker
Verb
  • Dodge won't spoil the surprise by confirming if the last one will be based on the Charger or the Challenger (or maybe both), but the evidence suggests the latter is more likely.
    Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Farmers’ broiler chickens suffocate, and dairy products spoil.
    Monica Mark, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Feb. 2023
Verb
  • Jackson nursed him back to health by covering his feet with a medicated balm and became acutely aware of the need to protect her pets from the hot summer sun and heatwaves.
    Jen Reeder, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • The University of Minnesota’s equine intensive care unit nursed him back from his pneumonia and wounds.
    Mark Vancleave, Twin Cities, 30 June 2025
Verb
  • Be babied by him with back rubs, head scratches and order fast food for dinner.
    Emily St. Martin, Oc Register, 9 May 2025
  • But Vance thinks the real problem is that people just aren’t babying hard enough.
    Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 8 May 2025
Verb
  • Moo Deng was born on July 10, 2024, to mother Jona and father Tony at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi, Thailand.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
  • Lupita Nyong'o stars as Roz, a service robot who washes up on a small island with no human inhabitants and must figure out how to adapt her programming to the wilderness while mothering a baby goose.
    K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 23 May 2025
Verb
  • Yachts have several stewards whose primary duty is to pamper, one chef cooking for a small group, the ability to select menus ahead of time, and the freedom to choose destinations.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 13 July 2025
  • Many pet owners love to pamper and praise their animal companions, and there are small business owners who are quick to oblige.
    Erin Federigan, Mercury News, 2 July 2025
Verb
  • Take just five minutes out of the day to indulge yourself in a self-care exercise.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
  • One of the rare recent TV exercises not to indulge conspiracy-theory tropes but deconstruct and criticize them was Netflix’s winter limited series Zero Day, in which the British actor Dan Stevens played a villainous YouTuber peddling such theories.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 19 July 2025
Verb
  • Antisemitic rhetoric, and even violence, sometimes masked as anti-Israel bile, must be combatted, not coddled.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 20 June 2025
  • Employees become more resilient and engaged when pushed to grow, not shielded and coddled from struggle.
    Julian Hayes II, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Vet emailed me a photo of Sly contentedly dandling a grandson in his lap.
    David Kamp, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • An hour later, Musk took X to New York and dandled him on his knee while being photographed for Time.
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
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“Cocker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cocker. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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