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What is the verb for coddlings?

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coddle
  1. (transitive) To treat gently or with great care.
  2. (transitive) To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
  3. (transitive) To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Some may think of us as a nanny state, given the way we coddle our citizens with free health care and equality provisions.”
coddling
coddles
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coddle
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But as long as America coddles its grain farmers, other nations won't drop import tariffs on U.S. meat.”
      “That's why her company coddles and pampers its mostly upper-middle class and upper class clients.”
      “The D.A. of this county in New York takes on a system that she says coddles criminals.”
coddled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of coddle
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  3. Examples:
    1. “You know that one can never gain honor if he is pampered and coddled like this!”
      “Being an intelligent child, she really resented the way that she was being coddled.”
      “In the go-go days, dot.coms went public and were coddled by investors like premature babies in incubators.”
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