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as in copied

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verb

past tense of crib
as in reproduced
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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Recent Examples of cribbed
Verb
Facing the less-than-impressed detectives, Bret puts forth his theory of the Trawler, which he’s largely cribbed from Joan Didion’s writing on Charles Manson. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026 All eight club tracks follow the same basic template, one cribbed from Midwestern producers like Boo Williams and Paul Johnson, as well as early, ravey Daft Punk and, in particular, the take-no-prisoners cutups of Germany’s Soundhack. — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026 The colorway is also cribbed from that used to reveal the Air Jordan 28, as a black upper gives way to a highlighter green inner layer and shroud branding, as well as a translucent blue outsole. — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 9 Feb. 2026 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 Noah is constantly making sermons or toasts cribbed from Talmud for Netflix Subscribers. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cribbed
  1. canned
  2. reproduced
  3. formulaic
  4. plagiarized
  5. unoriginal
  6. invented
  7. forged
  8. manipulated
Adjective
  • The 51-year-old Grapevine resident shopped with his wife, Janice, 50, for canned goods, rice and flour.
    — Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Instead, look for canned options in water or olive oil with no or low sodium.
    — Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of canned
Verb
  • Instead of providing more security, its obfuscation tactics challenged experts, who then reproduced—and improved upon—the result.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Other paintings and drawings are reproduced through embroidery, embossing and enameled charms, which adorn decorative chains.
    — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of reproduced
Adjective
  • The inherent challenge in making films dealing with progressive illness is not succumbing to an inescapably formulaic structure that can’t help but go with the territory.
    — Michael Rechtshaffen, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Even though the tides are slowly turning, many video games have formulaic plots that reinforce old-school gender and heteronormative roles, often featuring a hero saving a damsel in distress from a menacing villain.
    — Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of formulaic
Verb
  • The new Cambridge Analytica has plagiarized other 404 Media articles, in addition to reporting by the New York Times, Engadget, MIT Technology Review, and Wired.
    — Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 30 July 2026
  • Kinnock was among his generation’s greatest political orators—to the point that Joe Biden, then a senator from Delaware, plagiarized some of his most effective lines.
    — James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026
Definition of plagiarized
Adjective
  • Summary Leaders are increasingly sounding generic, often using similar buzzwords, a trend exacerbated by AI's ability to generate competent but unoriginal communication.
    — Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • No moral panic is more unoriginal than the fear that contemporary men are no longer as manly as the heroes who preceded them.
    — Elizabeth Dray, STAT, 21 July 2026
Definition of unoriginal
Verb
  • Motorola invented the mobile phone, but by the time Brown was handed the reins, its cellphone business had been outpaced by Nokia and Samsung.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • At 21-Across, the [American architect who invented Scrabble while unemployed during the Great Depression] is ALFRED BUTTS.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of invented
Verb
  • The Sierra takes the luxury angle further with available real and forged wood trim, a panoramic sunroof, and the sort of plush detailing that would have seemed absurd in a work truck a couple of decades ago.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2026
  • But while turnstiles spun — on Thursday, the club announced a record 4,034,219 fans showed up this season to witness Ohtani’s greatness — everyone forged foolishly forward.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of forged
Verb
  • Mac Haddow, with the American Kratom Association, said the FDA and states that have banned kratom are conflating the natural product with synthetic and chemically manipulated ones, which are associated with adverse effects and even deaths.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The FraudClassifier model distinguishes between payments initiated by authorized and unauthorized parties and explicitly recognizes situations in which an authorized party was manipulated or acted fraudulently.
    — Shahen Minasyan, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of manipulated

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“Cribbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cribbed. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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