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as in to spoil
to treat with great or excessive care
accused the judiciary of coddling criminals
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Recent Examples of coddle
Why are her landlord and the town of Huntley still coddling her?
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Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025
Maximizing what a quarterback can be does not mean coddling him.
—Alec Lewis, New York Times, 13 May 2025
But Louise isn’t willing to sit in judgment or to coddle him.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2025
The congressional hearing this morning with Mayor Adams and the mayors of Boston, Chicago and Denver is a partisan Republican display designed to show that the four Democratic mayors are coddling dangerous and violent undocumented criminals who should be deported.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2025
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Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025
Maximizing what a quarterback can be does not mean coddling him.
—Alec Lewis, New York Times, 13 May 2025
But Louise isn’t willing to sit in judgment or to coddle him.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2025
The congressional hearing this morning with Mayor Adams and the mayors of Boston, Chicago and Denver is a partisan Republican display designed to show that the four Democratic mayors are coddling dangerous and violent undocumented criminals who should be deported.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coddle
Verb
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Armenians boiled your parchment skin to make yellow umber for silk and wool.—
Peter Balakian,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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By crushing bones and boiling them to extract grease, Neanderthals tapped into a rich energy source, using techniques once thought to belong only to much later human groups.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
12 July 2025
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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
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Farmers’ broiler chickens suffocate, and dairy products spoil.—
Monica Mark,
The Christian Science Monitor,
10 Feb. 2023
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In a surprising move, Cognition– the makers of autonomous coding tool Devin— acquired what was left of its rival Windsurf after the company’s cofounders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen and other staff members were poached by Google DeepMind for $2.4 billion to improve Gemini’s coding abilities.—
Rashi Shrivastava,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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Aside from global trade wars, Khan’s promotion comes after one of the company’s AI darlings was poached by Meta.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
9 July 2025
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Take just five minutes out of the day to indulge yourself in a self-care exercise.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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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
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The White House has been stewing since the paper ran a story last week claiming Trump sent Epstein a bawdy yet cryptic note for the late financier’s 50th birthday in 2003.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
22 July 2025
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The whisky offers aromas of seasoned wood, stewed fruit, caramelized banana, and nutmeg.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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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
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The University of Minnesota’s equine intensive care unit nursed him back from his pneumonia and wounds.—
Mark Vancleave,
Twin Cities,
30 June 2025
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The sheriff’s simmering anger, which reaches boiling point as a result of Eddington’s growing air of claustrophobia and his own loosening grip on his life, leads to Cross assassinating Garcia.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
23 July 2025
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The simmering public response about Zilberstein’s ruling was enough to provoke a partial retraction.—
Deborah Danan,
Sun Sentinel,
22 July 2025
Verb
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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
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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
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“Coddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coddle. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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