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
Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026
That can include checking for possible reasons the child is crying, such as hunger or needing a diaper change; trying out a list of strategies to calm the baby; and designating a spot, such as a crib or playpen, to leave the child for a few minutes while the parent cools off.
—Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2026
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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
Elsewhere in the snippet of the music video, Latto could be seen walking around a white crib and viewing a scrapbook featuring a page with a rattle and dummy and a positive ClearBlue pregnancy test placed on top.
—Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026
That can include checking for possible reasons the child is crying, such as hunger or needing a diaper change; trying out a list of strategies to calm the baby; and designating a spot, such as a crib or playpen, to leave the child for a few minutes while the parent cools off.
—Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2026
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Their goal is to reproduce a 1919 eclipse experiment that measured how the sun’s gravity bends the light from distant stars and confirmed Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, according to the Spanish Scientific and Advisory Committee for the Trio of Eclipses.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
6 June 2026
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Star of Bethlehem reproduces through underground bulbs and bulblets.—
Tim Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
6 June 2026
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In one slide, Miller, 23, and his girlfriend stood next to each other behind Kashton in a bassinet.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
3 June 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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Transgender Flossmoor resident Owen Granger volunteered at the booth for advocacy organization PFLAG.—
Evy Lewis,
Chicago Tribune,
13 June 2026
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The line for the CGC booth was filled with prospective customers from the moment the convention started.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
12 June 2026
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There is this common understanding of the disruptive way of inventing a genre.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
9 June 2026
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Frozen margaritas not only weren’t legal, they hadn’t been invented.—
Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 June 2026
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With Tim Payne from the cradle to the grave.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
1 June 2026
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The simulations also tracked how matter moves through stellar cradles.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
1 June 2026
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Polly Adler has worked long and hard to build up her high-class brothel business.—
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
9 June 2026
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We’re left with Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) all alone in her modern-day brothel — a dollhouse filled with shiny things and zero substance — and Lexi (Maude Apatow) once again taking the moral high ground without fully grasping why.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
1 June 2026
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Super Bowl winners have his rings, too — the Rams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Philadelphia Eagles and the Seattle Seahawks, whose players opened their ornate jewelry boxes at a private team party Thursday night to find the prize every NFL player covets.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
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Wraps cost $5 a la carte or $10 in a box with a side and a drink, according to a news release from the Irvine chain.—
Fielding Buck,
Oc Register,
11 June 2026
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“Crib.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crib. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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