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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
Olivia Horn,
Pitchfork,
20 Feb. 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.
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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.
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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.
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Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
31 Dec. 2025
Noah is constantly making sermons or toasts cribbed from Talmud for Netflix Subscribers.
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Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
There is even, inexplicably, an entire chorus cribbed from a blink-182 song.
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Olivia Horn,
Pitchfork,
20 Feb. 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
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The brand offers a one-to-one replacement for nearly every classic liquor on the market, plus sparkling wine and canned cocktails.
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The food comes in either canned or bagged and boxed packaging.
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This article originally appeared in Spektrum der Wissenschaft and was reproduced with permission.
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No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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And their movies don’t get more formulaic than the new odd couple-style comedy starring John Cena and Eric André.
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Job listings have become so formulaic that even strong candidates scroll past them without a second look.
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The book was later pulled from circulation amid the revelation that Hill plagiarized a portion.
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In the mind of the plagiarized, as often as not, what has been perpetrated is nothing less than an outrage.
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The film's trailer looked unoriginal and uninteresting.
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The first stage began in July 2025, when Meta announced comprehensive measures targeting accounts that repeatedly share unoriginal content without meaningful enhancement, building on enforcement actions that had already been taken against 500,000 accounts in the first half of the year.
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Originalism is a terrific theory for Supreme Court dissents in which some justice complains that the court has invented new constitutional rights.
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So Nima Arkani-Hamed and Jaroslav Trnka invented/discovered the amplituhedron as the answer to this question.
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In the months since, the girl group has forged ahead as a quintet, playing Coachella in April and announcing a new EP set for release in August.
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True leadership transcends titles, forged through influence and presence, not authority.
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In April 2026, the New England Journal of Medicine retracted a paper after discovering that a clinical image had been manipulated with AI.
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Predictive markets, like sports betting, can be manipulated.
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“Cribbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cribbed. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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