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crib

[krib] / krɪb /


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Standing in front of a crib with her baby in a sling, she gives tips to new mothers who have gotten bills for hospital deliveries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

He built the baby crib that welcomed a couple’s first child.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Since the distance between slats was now deemed unsafe, Eric transformed the crib into blocks.

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

Later, in his crib in the pan tree, he would think: I forgot to eat.

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

Many people here treat their monkeys like children, swaddling them in cribs at night and dressing them in diapers — cutting a hole for their long tails to peek through.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

He himself had been an infant in a row of identical cribs, and he shared a name with countless other foundlings to show for it.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

Popular around my firehouse is a line directly cribbed from its military origins: “Death smiles at everyone. Firefighters smile back.”

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026

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

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

Another, in the gated community of Portuguese Bend, is perched on eight feet of timber cribbing, a makeshift remedy that essentially suspends the property on supersize Jenga blocks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2023

There, by cribbing across the bottom, they got in a temporary line.

From Whispering Smith by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth


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