crib
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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
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 let Vonetta cry and cry in her crib.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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
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
She also wants the state to provide funding for free portable cribs for economically disadvantaged New Yorkers in an effort to reduce the number of infant deaths related to unsafe sleep settings.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
We used the dresser drawers as cribs and the kids slept with us or on fold-out cots.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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
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
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
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
We're none of us saints," added Lettice, "but we've never gone in for cribbing at Chessington.
From The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life by Angela Brazil
