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as in spoiled
to treat with great or excessive care
accused the judiciary of coddling criminals
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as in pampered
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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
Adjective
Eric didn’t deserve to be gunned down, and the system failed him — the system that felt that juveniles needed to be 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coddled
Verb
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These petite potatoes are boiled, then stir fried, tossed with a salty-sweet sauce and finished with sesame seeds, green onions and pepper flakes.—
Faye Levy,
Oc Register,
9 Sep. 2025
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The afternoon sun licked the windscreen of the car, and the heat boiled my skin.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Then there are the therapy sessions themselves, but those needn’t be spoiled either.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
9 Sep. 2025
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Holding on for a win on Saturday finally allowed the Padres to gain a game in the NL West on the on Dodgers, who lost a fifth straight when the Orioles spoiled a no-hitter with two outs and ultimately walked off a win.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Their pampered children were the local bullies who even managed to irritate the good-natured doctor.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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They’re supposedly quite pampered throughout the process, but the process still takes a toll on their health over time.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
28 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The two meats were stewed, roasted, grilled and breaded.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Noah Hawley stewed on an Alien spinoff years before FX even secured the rights.—
Daron James,
IndieWire,
13 Aug. 2025
Verb
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At one point Wednesday, the judge indulged their request to meet with Adelson and the attorneys at a side bar out of the public’s earshot.—
Lauren del Valle,
CNN Money,
6 Sep. 2025
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There’s humor in the script’s observation of the absurd degree to which celebrities are indulged, like the slice of cheesecake that keeps turning up because Jay once requested it and thereafter it was written into his rider.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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For perspective, the net worth of the seven wealthiest people in the world--all AI luminaries including Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang--exceeds $2 trillion, close to the GDP of Canada.—
Martine Paris,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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In a recent interview with The School of Hard Knocks, a popular social-media channel known for interviewing wealthy entrepreneurs, Repole shared his contrarian view on entrepreneurship, emphasizing the brutal realities that most success stories gloss over.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Much of the audience is clearly children, the Gen Alpha tweens nursed on Cocomelon and Baby Shark hi-jinks.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
10 Sep. 2025
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Kershaw nursed the one-run lead through six innings.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
16 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The radical left of the 1960s and ’70s was overwhelmingly populated by college students, many of them affluent, being taught by America’s elite educators.—
Michael Graham,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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Burton said smaller and less affluent countries showcase their land conservation and environmental protection strategies too.—
Joan Michelson,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Coddled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coddled. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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