as in spoiled
to treat with great or excessive care
a luxury spa where guests are cosseted with no expense spared
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Recent Examples of cosseted
While most art cars since the fifth installment had been cosseted, this one was present at the starting line for the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans.
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Trinity Francis, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
While its remote location at the top of the world makes flying and staying here expensive, Greenland isn’t for luxury lovers accustomed to being cosseted.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2025
Trinity Francis, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
While its remote location at the top of the world makes flying and staying here expensive, Greenland isn’t for luxury lovers accustomed to being cosseted.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cosseted
Verb
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The quiet offensive day spoiled Ureña’s outing.—
Jeff Fletcher,
Oc Register,
19 Apr. 2026
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This sprout is the early stage of a new garlic plant forming inside the clove, not a sign that your garlic has spoiled.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
15 Apr. 2026
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Then Joe Biden and his corrupt administration comes along and makes matters worse, allowing thousands of criminals to enter our country illegally, pillaging Americans while being pampered in luxury hotels on our dime.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2026
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View from the middle powers Western European workers are famously pampered in comparison to their transatlantic peers.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
13 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Perhaps the latter must be indulged a bit to build a platform for the former—forests sometimes need to burn in order to thrive.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
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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
Verb
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On Wednesday, SeaWorld personnel released five birds and two sea lions that had been nursed back to health back into the ocean.—
Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Apr. 2026
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Jordan, an energetic 2-year-old hound mix, was nursed back to health and properly trained at the shelter after he was found with a shock collar embedded into his neck over a year ago.—
Amanda Rosa
April 9,
Miami Herald,
9 Apr. 2026
Verb
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If a child is under ten years old, they will be coddled and protected from danger, like homeschooled Birkin bags.—
Libby Gelman-Waxner,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2026
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Cooked slowly in a hot water bath, coddled eggs are one of the most luxurious ways to enjoy eggs at home.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
18 Apr. 2026
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“Cosseted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cosseted. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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