as in to reproduce
to copy an idea, a piece of writing, etc., from someone else
She cribbed a line or two from her favorite poet.
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as in bassinet
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as in bawdy house
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Recent Examples of crib
Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 21 Jan. 2026
But there's something a bit anticlimactic about ending it in that basement, as if the characters never had lives outside the archetypes the show made for them, cribbed from a role-playing game.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
Tim Fang, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
Their 3-month-old baby was in his crib and their 2-year-old daughter was walking around.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
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Verb
Many of its principles were cribbed from other sources, like Apple’s terms of service and the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
—Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 21 Jan. 2026
But there's something a bit anticlimactic about ending it in that basement, as if the characters never had lives outside the archetypes the show made for them, cribbed from a role-playing game.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
Noun
On Easter Sunday, police were called to a home on Otono Court in South San Jose after Jaxon was found unresponsive in his crib.
—Tim Fang, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
Their 3-month-old baby was in his crib and their 2-year-old daughter was walking around.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
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Even when robots resemble people and can reproduce human-like behaviors, young children may not automatically attribute the same intentions, knowledge, or communicative value to them.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
1 June 2026
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But cultural legitimacy is considerably harder to reproduce.—
Esade Business & Law School,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
Noun
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The woman, her husband, Peter Temple, and the couple's 12 children, ages five to 17, were able to spend time at home with Pandora before her funeral thanks to a cooling bassinet, a medical device that preserves a baby's body and slows the decaying process through cold temperatures.—
Nicholas Rice,
PEOPLE,
23 May 2026
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Then there are pack ‘n’ plays, travel cribs, and bassinets—also all different.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
5 May 2026
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She was convicted of prostitution and keeping a bawdy house, according to the DHS.—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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The much-married Stoiber, reputed to have been the Silverton proprietor of a bawdy house, was impossible to get along with.—
Sandra Dallas,
Denver Post,
28 Mar. 2026
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Here’s the clip of his throw in the ALCS, with Keith Jackson, Earl Weaver and Jim Palmer in the booth for ABC.—
Tyler Kepner,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
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The fair is also continuing to experiment with programming outside the booth model.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
28 May 2026
Verb
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And while Louis and Molloy are mostly absent from the source material, Jones and the writers’ room invented new story lines for them, sometimes repurposing plot points from future Vampire Chronicles entries.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
2 June 2026
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Leach helped invent the pass-happy system with Hal Mumme and then perfected it.—
Ralph D. Russo,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
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Break down bureaucratic silos between early education, K–12, and higher education so California can build a true cradle-to-career approach that keeps students from falling through the cracks at critical transitions in their educational journey.—
Mercury News Editorial Board,
Mercury News,
28 May 2026
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Rather than approaching Lane’s story as a traditional cradle-to-present biography, the film uses his life and work as a way into the continuing importance of theater itself.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
28 May 2026
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Ballots have been mailed to voters, and drop boxes are open to receive them.—
Jenny Gathright,
Washington Post,
3 June 2026
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In the summer, have your lunch out on the terrace, where the views are of the blue waters of the lake and the jewel-box villages on the opposite shore.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
Verb
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Do not allow someone else to manipulate your feelings.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
29 May 2026
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However, a lusty CPU and GPU can only do so much in local AI processing if the system lacks adequate RAM and local storage to hold and manipulate large models.—
John Burek,
PC Magazine,
29 May 2026
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“Crib.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crib. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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