crib
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He built the baby crib that welcomed a couple’s first child.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
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
The crib was smaller than what our son is used to and nobody slept all that well, but it beat lugging one along.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Once a baby arrives, even the best-laid plans can fly out of the crib quicker than an unwanted Tickle Me Elmo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Margaret asked, “He didn’t take her out of the crib to change her nappy, did he?”
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
I also looked into services that rent out items like strollers, cribs and high chairs, and Vrbo has a partnership with one such company, BabyQuip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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
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
She found a website that cribs audio from police radio channels, she testified.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
She remembered the rows of cribs with most of the little occupants sound asleep, and those who were wakeful staring quietly at the ceiling.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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 often cribbed from a motivational text called “Lessons from Geese” when talking about Wawa, explaining: “Why do geese fly in a ‘V’?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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
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
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
Bannon pointed toward a cleared space behind the pile of cribbing, where the carpenters had been at work on the heavy timbers.
From Calumet 'K' by Samuel Merwin
