spoil
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“As a grandparent, you know you can love them and spoil them and then give them back.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
"If we bring vegetables, they'll spoil by noon," she said.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
To spoil too much of this extraordinary transition would be a disservice to anyone who hasn’t yet seen “Blue Heron.”
From Salon • May 25, 2026
They would spoil the pristine purity of Vernon Point’s only “esplanade”—a befuddled Kyra not having realized she lives on one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
They would both have the same news, so whichever I read first would spoil the other.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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