as in to spoil
to treat with great or excessive care
a luxury spa where guests are cosseted with no expense spared
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Recent Examples of cosset
The expansive pool deck as well as one of the country’s most cosseting spas, complete with hammam, helps round out the pampering on offer.
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Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
Some people are in crisis, others cosseted by jobs that pay, and all are folded into a diminished town where more rock is ferried out of the quarries and onto highways, sent away, leaving a bigger hole in the ground.
—Ellyn Gaydos, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
But not every safari-goer wants all that cosseting (or the costs that go with it).
—Lisa Grainger, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 July 2024
What Readers Loved The high scores in this race indicate just how rich teeming Bangkok is in cosseting retreats.
—Elaine Glusac, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
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Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
Some people are in crisis, others cosseted by jobs that pay, and all are folded into a diminished town where more rock is ferried out of the quarries and onto highways, sent away, leaving a bigger hole in the ground.
—Ellyn Gaydos, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
But not every safari-goer wants all that cosseting (or the costs that go with it).
—Lisa Grainger, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 July 2024
What Readers Loved The high scores in this race indicate just how rich teeming Bangkok is in cosseting retreats.
—Elaine Glusac, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cosset
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Dodge won't spoil the surprise by confirming if the last one will be based on the Charger or the Challenger (or maybe both), but the evidence suggests the latter is more likely.Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 13 Feb. 2023
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Farmers’ broiler chickens suffocate, and dairy products spoil.Monica Mark, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Feb. 2023
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Heller’s screenplay adaptation of the 2021 novel by Rachel Yoder indulges the selfish antagonism that Millennial feminists take as their prerogative.Armond White, National Review, 13 Dec. 2024
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For now, most Syrians seem ready to indulge Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), whose forces swept through the country almost unopposed and seized the capital, Damascus, last weekend from Bashar al-Assad.Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2024
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Bosa, as well as two other star players, left tackle Trent Williams (ankle) and tight end George Kittle (hamstring) are all listed as questionable to play and the reality is each may need to be nursed to a distant regular season finish line with nearly half the schedule left to play.Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
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Tight end Isaiah Likely missed most of last week nursing a hamstring injury.Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 14 Nov. 2024
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The owner of the New York Giants in the late 1940s took the team for a week of pampering before the start of spring training.Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2024
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In the beauty category, this face roller and gua sha set that’s packaged nicely makes a great gift for anyone who wants to pamper themselves at home.Isabel Garcia, People.com, 12 Dec. 2024
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The sensitive child of the bunch doesn’t need to be babied.Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 28 Nov. 2023
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Plus, judging by Dustin May, Walker Buehler and many others, babying a pitcher doesn’t seem too effective.Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
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The user is coddled by the machine, voluntarily infantilized.Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2024
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Sleek rooms have padded vinyl floors that coddle bare feet, and the buzzy lobby level bar is all DJ sets and mixology.Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Cosset.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cosset. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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