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crib

[krib] / krɪb /


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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

One thing we didn’t want to bring was a travel crib, so I filtered carefully for vacation rentals that had one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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

She claimed Thea had been sleeping in a bedside crib and she herself had taken a nap, but was woken by a neighbour ringing the doorbell.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

She stood up from her chair and began to approach the camera, and Eli snapped to his senses, hurrying Boaz back to his crib.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

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

Lou Ann wrestles a large sleeping mat out of the linen closet and flips on a light in a room crowded with cribs and small sleeping mats.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

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 cribbed the expression from Indian guru Meher Baba, but it could easily have been about momos in bull markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025

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

A popular example features the words uttered by J. Robert Oppenheimer in the film, cribbed from the Bhagavad Gita, rendered in bouncy pink-and-white text: “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

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

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

Devoted BTS Army fans know that Suga has an underground streak from his pre-BTS days, cribbing production notes from pioneering Korean rap acts like Epik High.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2023

This was how I had failed, while Alice, cribbing my facts, had worked them out well, and come out first.

From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles


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