crib
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His most recent project involved the crib my husband and I had saved from our sons’ infancy with the hope that grandchildren would one day use it.
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
Once a baby arrives, even the best-laid plans can fly out of the crib quicker than an unwanted Tickle Me Elmo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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
He tiptoed to the first crib and peered in.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
I also looked into services that rent out items like strollers, cribs and high chairs, and Vrbo has a partnership with one such company, BabyQuip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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
But the production offered her accommodations, including an extra dressing room to put her twins’ cribs in and a personal driver, so that her nanny could take the babies home early.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2024
She also wants the state to provide funding for free portable cribs for economically disadvantaged New Yorkers in an effort to reduce the number of infant deaths related to unsafe sleep settings.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
The second-largest rain forest in the world, wildlife everyone else gets to see only in the alphabet animals that hang over children’s cribs.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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
Popular around my firehouse is a line directly cribbed from its military origins: “Death smiles at everyone. Firefighters smile back.”
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 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
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
Thomas Weber, an expert on German history, pointed out that in modern Germany one far-right party has been cribbing wholesale from parts of the Nazi party manifesto.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2024
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
"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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