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spoon-fed

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past tense of spoon-feed

as in hand-fed

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filled

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Following the events of 1989, mourners would converge on the same day every year in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay district, to attend a vigil that filled multiple soccer pitches in the neighborhood’s Victoria Park with candlelight.

— Chris Lau, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Here, they’re filled with crab and served as a starter, or with goat's milk ice cream and local honey for dessert.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Aug. 2026

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