crib
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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
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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
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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
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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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