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[krib] / krɪb /


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Since the distance between slats was now deemed unsafe, Eric transformed the crib into blocks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

The crib was smaller than what our son is used to and nobody slept all that well, but it beat lugging one along.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

He used the AI assistant Claude to crib these from the desired skills listed in job postings for the kinds of roles he was targeting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

The office belonged to head coach Sean McVay, and now it features walls painted pink and light blue and a crib, a changing table and a menagerie of stuffed animals.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026

My room was furnished with a crib for Adria and a bunk bed for Ashley and me.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

That doesn’t include hospital costs or baby gear like strollers, car seats or cribs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

The findings, published in the journal Nature, show that the structures known as queen cells, sometimes called "royal cribs," are much more than protective containers.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026

Babyletto, a Los Angeles-based nursery furniture brand, is providing free cribs to any families that have lost their homes or been impacted by the fires.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025

Targaryens often place dragon eggs in cribs with their highborn babies with the hope that their hatchlings will naturally bond with them, which doesn’t always happen.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2024

He was imagining the nursery as a row of identical cribs.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Critic W. David Marx, looking to sum up the curiously stagnant opening decades of the 21st century, cribbed a phrase from one of its enduring icons for the title of his book “Blank Space.”

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

He often cribbed from a motivational text called “Lessons from Geese” when talking about Wawa, explaining: “Why do geese fly in a ‘V’?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

She was 17 when they wed, beginning a royal partnership that seemed cribbed from a fairytale and would span almost seven decades.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025

The kills are a desperate bid for mythic carnage status, and the world is a dystopian cartoon unimaginatively cribbed from “The Hunger Games.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2024

It would perhaps be unfair to say that the Romans cribbed their calendar from “decadent” Egypt, but not unfair by much.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

As a teaser trailer released late last year noted, with a bit of cribbing from Peter Jackson, “the age of toys is over.”

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026

Firefighters secured the truck with “a grip hoist, grade 100 chain, and 6-inch vehicle strap cribbing, straps to keep the massively heavy vehicle from rolling any further forward,” fire officials posted on Facebook.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 26, 2023

The discipline already had a “massive plagiarism problem” with students borrowing computer code from friends or cribbing it from the internet, said MacKellar.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2023

Yes, he was always ambitious, skipping grades in school and occasionally even cribbing from other people’s work.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2023

"Thought to get the prize by cribbing, did you, you sneak?"

From Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge by Fred E. Weatherly


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