as in pampered
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as in spoiled
to treat with great or excessive care
accused the judiciary of coddling criminals
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Recent Examples of coddled
Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Call us coddled, or sensitive snowflakes, or whatever.
—Vivian Tu, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
My 6-foot frame was fully coddled in the driver’s seat, while also fitting behind the driver’s seat when adjusted for me.
—Karl Brauer, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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Eric didn’t deserve to be gunned down, and the system failed him — the system that felt that juveniles needed to be coddled.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for coddled
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His wife, Sydney Bowles, or Lady Redesdale, was the pampered daughter of the media baron Thomas Gibson Bowles, who, among other ventures, founded Vanity Fair.—
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Frank DiPalermo gets some great one-liners as Bernie, the lonely homeowner who dotes on his pampered Pomeranian, Sophia.—
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Distilled water is water that has been boiled, causing the water molecules to return to a gaseous state and then condense back into liquid.—
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Then, the heat generated would have boiled the water away, removing the natural neutron moderator, shutting down the reactor – until things cooled off and water again flowed in among the rocks.—
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Since the totality is gracing Libya and Egypt, clear skies are almost guaranteed for the astounding event—a welcome piece of news for anyone who remembers the clouds that spoiled visibility in parts of North America during the 2024 eclipse.—
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Until one moment spoiled everything.—
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While many wealthier Americans have enjoyed years of double-digit stock market gains, advancing home prices and rising wages, those earning less have been squeezed by the combination of higher prices, debt and a slowing job market.—
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Following the money Hinojosa and Bell have tied Abbott’s private-school voucher push to a broader argument about favoritism, arguing the program steers public dollars to mostly Christian schools while benefiting wealthy contributors.—
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Try making sauteed collard greens with garlic, stewed collard greens with beans, or minestrone with collards.—
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Lentils stewed with bell peppers, for example, is a good dish to help relieve fatigue.—
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Seibert’s niece, said her uncle indulged his love of travel the past three years, even going on a road trip to his old haunts in Washington, Idaho and Montana.—
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As for whether whims like that need to be indulged, Mayer, perhaps not surprisingly, is on the side of the talent.—
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In general, rural areas have declining populations that are older and less affluent than urban areas — trends that aren’t likely to change in the near future, said Katherine Hempstead, senior policy officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.—
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The building itself dates from the mid-1800s, when the Beaufort Gardens terraces were first constructed for affluent London families.—
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For any of us who have ever nursed private, unseemly doubts or jealousies, Arnett is a tonic.—
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Ineke Zeldenrust, international coordinator for the Clean Clothes Campaign, a witness signatory of the Accord, has long nursed a sense of foreboding about where worker safety is headed in Bangladesh.—
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“Coddled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coddled. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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