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hand-feeding

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present participle of hand-feed

as in spoon-feeding

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filling

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Local rinks are filling back up, the Sabres’ rookie camp opens in just over a week and in roughly two weeks the team’s veterans will begin training camp for the 2026-27 season.

— Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Magazines and newspapers have spent much of the past few years filling column inches with concerns about the manhood of young Americans.

— T. M. Brown, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2026

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