cribbing

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I’ve done the same a hundred times, cribbing from emails to compose essays, from text messages to finish poems.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2025

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

The system of fudging tasks, cribbing lessons, deception of every sort they endeavoured to overthrow.

From Ernest Bracebridge School Days by Thomas, William I.