crib
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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
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
Nicole Blain, 30, told a court she had taken a nap, and woke to find Thea Wilson lying on the floor beside her crib at her Greenock flat in July 2023.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
The crib looks exactly the same as it did in the ’90s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
"This will be your room, and you're going to have a real bed, like a big boy, instead of a crib."
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
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Both fine and applied arts make up the show, which includes objects ranging from paintings and prints to cribs, cabinets, light fixtures and hardware.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 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
And they collected all of their first-time parenting materials like cribs and strollers secondhand.
From Salon ● May 10, 2025
The syndrome is also called “crib death,” because infants often die in their cribs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2024
It was littered with belongings: brass beds, chairs, kitchen tables, pots and pans, cribs, and piles of clothes.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Eventually you’ll have the pleasure of reminding new colleagues that their pop-culture touchstones were cribbed from your youth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 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
He started a short-lived humor magazine, Read ’Em and Grin, mainly using jokes cribbed from other sources and selling ads to local merchants.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
In-I-Nout, as the imitation was originally known, not only cribbed In-N-Out’s recipes but also furnished its dining room with red diner booths, a faux plant wall and a reversed In-N-Out logo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023
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
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More recently, it ran afoul of Pokémon’s legions by cribbing that franchise’s signature font and imagery.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 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
There, by cribbing across the bottom, they got in a temporary line.
From Whispering Smith by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)