as in to sweeten
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Where some agents propose taking a smaller percentage of prospects’ contracts than other agents would to sweeten their submission.—
Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
17 June 2025 -
The expansion comes as other states from New York to California to Texas have sweetened or are in the process of expanding their production incentives to keep projects from moving out of state and out of the country.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
13 June 2025
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Be babied by him with back rubs, head scratches and order fast food for dinner.—
Emily St. Martin,
Oc Register,
9 May 2025
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But Vance thinks the real problem is that people just aren’t babying hard enough.—
Rachel Marsden,
Hartford Courant,
8 May 2025
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Is this a Marner thing, or a sign that the team pampers their stars and that Blue and White disease is worse than ever? P Paul M. · 3h 30m ago Why is Marner so mad .—
James Mirtle,
New York Times,
18 June 2025
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The Unexpected Ibiza Hotel Partying meets pampering at the pink-hued paradise of The Unexpected Ibiza Hotel.—
Forbes Travel Guide,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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About half that time was spent in near silence as auctioneer Max Fawcett, head of Christie’s Geneva jewelry department, coaxed two phone bidders to increase their bids from $8.1 million to the final hammer price of $9.5 million, as seen through Christie’s livestream of the sale.—
Anthony DeMarco,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Yes, a Bernie Sanders voter shot Rep. Steve Scalise, but Sanders always condemns political violence and is not a gun nut coaxing it in his public life.—
Mark Green,
New York Daily News,
18 June 2025
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You’re not mollycoddled during the week and are expected to act as any professional crew member would.—
Helen Iatrou,
Robb Report,
14 Sep. 2023
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So football generally, and pro football specifically, helped reassure the country that American men were not mollycoddled softies.—
James Surowiecki,
New York Times,
19 Dec. 2019
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The ObamaCare failure made the tax cut harder, but after months of jawboning and wheedling, the White House got the deal done at the end of 2017.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
2 May 2025
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And yet, about four years ago, images of myself with flaxen hair started to wheedle their way into my brain and park there.—
Jennifer Hussein,
Allure,
4 Apr. 2025
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Antisemitic rhetoric, and even violence, sometimes masked as anti-Israel bile, must be combatted, not coddled.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
20 June 2025
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Employees become more resilient and engaged when pushed to grow, not shielded and coddled from struggle.—
Julian Hayes II,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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Doing prescribed burns safely takes a lot of boots on the ground and behind-the-scenes cajoling to make sure local residents, and regulators, are on board.—
Jack Dolan,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2025
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In deciding on this course, Putin has also rendered futile any attempts to cajole, lure, or appease him.—
ANDREI YAKOVLEV,
Foreign Affairs,
16 May 2025
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“Dulcify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dulcify. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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