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There were critical grumblings that the Sudanese government was coddling him: Ali Kushayb had been detained before but had been released for lack of evidence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Franco's needlers were Roman Catholics who claimed that he was coddling Protestants.

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At home, American Jewish spokesmen continued to charge that Carter was coddling the Arabs.

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Your mother always was coddling you up as a boy.

From The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

There was also a considerable pacifist element in our country which Germany was coddling in the hope of preventing the United States from using against her such forces as we already had at hand.

From The Victory At Sea by Hendrick, Burton J.