as in spoiled
to treat with great or excessive care
he babied his car, faithfully washing it every week if you baby him he'll never learn to take care of himself
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Recent Examples of babied
The brothers were each two years apart in age, but younger siblings were never babied; Nick recalled being on the receiving end of numerous pummelings by his older brothers.
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Andrew Greif, NBC news, 30 Jan. 2026
Outside the woods the whole world babied her.
—Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
Jean’s mama reproached her for not having been more careful and babied Wole, ordering him to remove his T-shirt and retrieving an aloe lotion, telling him to stretch out on the couch and instructing Jean to spread it over the tender areas.
—David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Andrew Greif, NBC news, 30 Jan. 2026
Outside the woods the whole world babied her.
—Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
Jean’s mama reproached her for not having been more careful and babied Wole, ordering him to remove his T-shirt and retrieving an aloe lotion, telling him to stretch out on the couch and instructing Jean to spread it over the tender areas.
—David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for babied
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Alvarez spoiled both, then took a fastball over the outer half and turned to trudge back to his dugout.—
Matt Kawahara,
Houston Chronicle,
29 Mar. 2026
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The nightmarish sequence spoiled a night that began with the Angels showing more promising signs at the plate.—
Jeff Fletcher,
Oc Register,
29 Mar. 2026
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Zookeepers nursed him and gave him the toy to train him to cling, an ability newborn macaques need to survive.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
4 Mar. 2026
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Plus, don't forget that other parents (including those who are currently breastfeeding and those who nursed babies in the past) can often provide a wealth of advice and support as well.—
Deborah Skolnik,
Parents,
1 Mar. 2026
Verb
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His appetite for complexity was increasingly indulged as a means of branding cities and institutions, and his novel forms were deployed as blunt metaphors to absorb and obscure contradictions rather than negotiate them in material and spatial terms.—
Julian Rose,
Artforum,
26 Mar. 2026
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The custodian of the maison’s some 20,000 documents, fragments, and objects is the effervescent Sophie Rouart, who indulged me in pulling any style of my choosing.—
Stephanie Sporn,
Vogue,
27 Jan. 2026
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Goetz understood this disorder not as the product of scant civic resources or state retreat but rather as the result of liberal misrule—do-gooder bureaucrats, failed social programs, and a city that had coddled the undeserving and the criminal.—
Heather Ann Thompson,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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As recently as last April, Narasimhan told analysts on a conference call that Most Favored Nation pricing would be devastating for America, where drug companies had been coddled.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
18 Jan. 2026
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Watch birthday pup get pampered.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
18 Mar. 2026
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Guests are pampered in personal huts that provide the utmost in privacy and silence and can choose from a full menu of options, including massages and facials that highlight local traditions and skin-healthy ingredients.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Babied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/babied. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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