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- verb Present participle of
cosset .
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Examples
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But it's not the most cossetting, which is what buyers in this segment want.
unknown title 2009
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That same cossetting quality turns the shed into a sanctuary for anyone willing to think outside the box but very much inside the shed.
Outer Sanctum: Why we love to step outside the box to think inside the shed 2010
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Come on, Stephen, man up--you've still got CTV, after all, when you need your daily fix of fawning and cossetting. posted by Dr.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Protection of 'access' by an individual journalist - the cossetting of their stock in trade - leads to obscuration of fact and interpretation of fact.
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He's not some fragile shy flower totally dependant on someone else cossetting him along.
Archive 2007-11-01 Spinningfishwife 2007
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He's not some fragile shy flower totally dependant on someone else cossetting him along.
Lad. Spinningfishwife 2007
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Simply put, I was spending too much time worrying, fretting, cossetting, rebooting and generally administrating when I could have used the time to actually do something that paid me money and paid the bills.
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Well, after the excitement and adventure of the temporary loss of the trike last week, we've been cossetting it and buying it new toys, etc.
Trikling News ailbhe 2007
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Sometimes she felt tempted to take the cheap thrills of purely physical existence with Louis as she realized more and more that, though his schooled and trained brain was a better machine than hers, his soul was a weak plant requiring constant cossetting and feeding while his body was the unreasoning, struggling home of appetites.
Captivity M. Leonora Eyles 1924
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Finally he sank into an armchair beside Lady Helen Varley, exchanging Mrs. Flaxman's cossetting for hers.
The Case of Richard Meynell Humphry Ward 1885
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