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Catherine essentially becomes a character in a Sofia Coppola movie who grows increasingly trapped and anguished in proportion to her cosseting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

Mr. Maccioni’s talent for cosseting high-strung, demanding clients like Stavros Niarchos, Frank Sinatra and the duke and duchess of Windsor elevated him to the status of trusted adviser, fixer and social gatekeeper.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2020

As she approached adolescence, her mother’s obsessive cosseting only became more pronounced.

From The Guardian • Oct. 1, 2016

Experienced for the first time, this covert cosseting feels slightly melancholy, like an episode of Cold War fiction involving futile charades and a likely defenestration.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 5, 2016

I think you're cosseting me up altogether and I don't like the white bread so well!

From Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston by Ruskin, John