cribbing

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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

In addition to grading the terrain to make the slopes gentler, he added powerful drainage systems and timber-and-concrete cribbing to keep structures in place.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 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

I call them principles, not trifles," murmured Maisie; "it's just on the same lines as the cribbing, not quite open and square.

From The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life by Brazil, Angela