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crib

[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

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

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

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)




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