as in spoils
to treat with great or excessive care
refused to mollycoddle her malingering son and sent him off to school
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But there was the Transformers actor, with his tattoos and pirate beard, behaving like the obnoxious guy at the bar who spoils everybody else’s night, getting into a fight, then continuing to party the next day after his high-profile arrest.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Feb. 2026 -
This post spoils the entirety of Bridgerton Season 4 Part 1 (the first four episodes).—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
29 Jan. 2026
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Her father — struggling with poverty and the grief over his wife's death — wants to shoot it, but Jessica secretly nurses the animal back to health, bringing her closer to her father in the process.—
Domenica Bongiovanni,
IndyStar,
25 Nov. 2025
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Elsewhere, Fennell indulges a familiar impulse to shock, or at least to jolt us awake.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Raimi indulges Send Help’s gore and gross-out moments with the zest of someone returning to his cult-favorite roots.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2026
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Each new piece was crafted to be simple, functional, and beautiful, giving parents peace of mind and babies a nurturing space to grow.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2025
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Hummers are the smallest and lightest of birds, some weighing no more than a coin, some babies the size of a bean.—
Kate Siber,
Outside,
21 Oct. 2025
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That creates healthy breadth readings and pleases professional stock pickers, though in the past has not been associated with strong index advances.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
23 Feb. 2026
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To see so many moments where films have been getting such strong reactions from audiences and from critics really pleases me.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Mollycoddles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mollycoddles. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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