crib
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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
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
The office belonged to head coach Sean McVay, and now it features walls painted pink and light blue and a crib, a changing table and a menagerie of stuffed animals.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026
She suggested placing a muslin and rolled-up towels in a newborn's crib, saying any fabric should be kept "well away" from the baby's face.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
She laid the baby in the crib, tucking her up and taking the greatest care not to brush a hand against her dæmon.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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
Targaryens often place dragon eggs in cribs with their highborn babies with the hope that their hatchlings will naturally bond with them, which doesn’t always happen.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2024
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
He was imagining the nursery as a row of identical cribs.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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
Those mirrors, reflecting one another in a white-walled interior, transform a modestly scaled architectural space into something like a vast, vacant landscape cribbed from “Dune.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024
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
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
Did being sued by Marvin Gaye’s estate for cribbing from his music in “Blurred Lines” affect your ability to enjoy Gaye’s stuff?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024
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
I call them principles, not trifles," murmured Maisie; "it's just on the same lines as the cribbing, not quite open and square.
From The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life by Brazil, Angela
