- present participle of crib.
cribbing
Example Sentences
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I’ve done the same a hundred times, cribbing from emails to compose essays, from text messages to finish poems.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025
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
She asked me about the movie and I gave her the response I'd worked out in advance, cribbing from the review it had gotten in the Bay Guardian.
From Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
