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Recent Examples of spoon-feed
Parents generally spoon-feed jars of pureed foods for a few months in the first year of life when introducing solids, but pouches marketed to parents of toddlers and older children have prolonged pureed food eating by years.
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
Buyers are proactive today, eager to find information through online research themselves rather than waiting for someone to spoon-feed it to them.
—Kelly Hopping, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Reese Witherspoon is spoon-feeding us another exquisite ‘fit!
—Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2024
To put it another way, neither the state legislators nor the governors had to break a sweat to draft and enact these measures — they were spoon-fed the texts.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
But Thanksgiving is upon us, and surely many of us will be ducking for cover as Uncle Chuck hurls social media talking points across the table — spoon-fed to him by an unholy algorithm tailored to reinforce his baser instincts.
—Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
Marshall had stomach cancer at the time and was only supposed to be fed through a tube, New York Magazine reported, but Smith spoon-fed him chicken broth.
—Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
These are sympathetic and moving sentiments to be sure, but being spoon-fed these messages isn’t all that interesting.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
You’re not being spoon-fed.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2023
Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
Buyers are proactive today, eager to find information through online research themselves rather than waiting for someone to spoon-feed it to them.
—Kelly Hopping, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Reese Witherspoon is spoon-feeding us another exquisite ‘fit!
—Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2024
To put it another way, neither the state legislators nor the governors had to break a sweat to draft and enact these measures — they were spoon-fed the texts.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
But Thanksgiving is upon us, and surely many of us will be ducking for cover as Uncle Chuck hurls social media talking points across the table — spoon-fed to him by an unholy algorithm tailored to reinforce his baser instincts.
—Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
Marshall had stomach cancer at the time and was only supposed to be fed through a tube, New York Magazine reported, but Smith spoon-fed him chicken broth.
—Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
These are sympathetic and moving sentiments to be sure, but being spoon-fed these messages isn’t all that interesting.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
You’re not being spoon-fed.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spoon-feed
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But the people who did the actual hands-on work of incubating the eggs and hand-feeding the chicks around the clock were a dedicated team of aviculturists and bird keepers.GrrlScientist, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
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Animal encounters allow a more up-close look at some of your favorite critters, such as hand-feeding a bison or touching a rhino.John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 23 July 2024
Verb
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To stop is to die, or, worse, to be force-fed a clip of Ricky Gervais saying words.Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
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Boyd and her cohorts were there to document their dispersal, compiling data while force-feeding wood stoves to heat drafty cabins in subzero winters.Ben Long, The Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2024
Verb
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The goal is steady feeding without overfeeding, which can damage the tree.Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Oct. 2024
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Her methods, the court concluded, included injecting premature infants with air or insulin, overfeeding them, and harming them with medical tools.The Week UK, theweek, 28 July 2024
Verb
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Too much filler fattening up this episode, and too little meat on the bone.Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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All the vampires begin to feel like failures — and there’s so much negative energy in the air that Colin is fattening up before our very eyes.Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 21 Oct. 2024
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Huts fill up fast, so check each property’s for pricing and availability.Margaret Jackson, The Denver Post, 13 Nov. 2024
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The nature is pretty cool My ship’s route from the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic Ocean was a beautiful one, filled with islands ringed in red-earthed cliffs and dark, forested riversides.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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“Spoon-feed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spoon-feed. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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