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babying

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verb

present participle of baby

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of babying
Noun
The novel is in many ways a string of dazzlingly deadpan and sharp observations about navigating the strange world of now, from predictive advertising to sugar babying to dead college friends. Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
Conceivably one or two of them should have already been at Citi Field, but until finally summoning McLean to pitch Saturday, Stearns has been babying them in the minors. Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2025 However, some have criticized employer techniques for tracking in-office attendance as babying employees and demonstrating an unwarranted lack of trust. Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for babying
Noun
  • The intense coddling and dysfunction within the family come to a head at the end of the show opener when a drunken Paul crashes a boat, killing his best friend’s girlfriend, Mallory (Madeline Popovich), and injuring all on board.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Those softies are going to get more coddling.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, Josh Heupel’s Vols are relegated to potentially spoiling rival Vanderbilt’s hopes in the regular-season finale.
    David Ubben, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • This past weekend, Delaware State beat North Carolina Central on the road for the first time since 1977, spoiling homecoming weekend.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This secluded, 75-acre Relais & Châteaux property — the first in North America – seamlessly blends rustic simplicity with extraordinary pampering.
    Suzanne Wright, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Today, guests can enjoy a spot of pampering at the two-story Fairmont Spa, catch some rays at the rooftop pool, and sip cocktails while listening to live jazz at the Alter Ego library bar.
    Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • One recalled that the mom of an Ole Miss first-year stayed in the family’s new campus-adjacent apartment last fall to provide logistical and moral support during sorority rush, lending her daughter a hand in fixing hair or nursing a hangover.
    Russell Shaw, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Many years have passed since nursing home patients lived in the Redlands Road building, the obscure permit on which the occupancy rested has lapsed.
    Lou Murray, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • What’s gained by indulging our doom?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • But Septime Webre’s choreography is supposed to have the air of wild and sometimes frenzied social dancing, of Charlestons and Fox Trots and Black Bottoms, of indulging the glorious excesses of the 1920s before the greedier side of the American Dream comes crashing down a few years later.
    David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 Oct. 2025

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“Babying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/babying. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.

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