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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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Having already cribbed Reels from TikTok and Stories from Snapchat, Instagram is coming for a piece of YouTube’s long-form pie. — Julia Black, Vanity Fair, 27 Oct. 2026 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

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Across the Atlantic, Britain is telling families to keep canned food, bottled water and cash on hand to get through three days of disruption.

— Bilin Lin, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2026
Butternut squash works as a stand-in for canned pumpkin too, since the squash varieties used in most US brands are closer to butternut than to carving pumpkins.

— Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2026

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In a research post, OpenAI said the pipeline identified 2,308 candidate findings and dynamically reproduced 1,724 of them.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026
Altonaga ruled that the dispute required a more developed factual record, particularly because the university’s earlier submissions selectively reproduced statements without providing their complete conversational context.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of reproduced

Adjective

And, based on my observations, some platform algorithms have forced very specific types of creator content formats, producing a formulaic product.

— William Daddi, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
More broadly, the season moved away from formulaic dressing toward a more individual, instinctive approach to style, where contrasting references and personal expression take precedence over a single aesthetic.

— Madeleine Schulz, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of formulaic

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Others are stolen and listed on the dark web, where they might conceivably be plagiarized for movie and TV adaptations.

— David McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
La Presse said that a 2012 short story by Orelien had plagiarized passages from a book by French author Louis Pauwels, while a 2013 opinion piece copied from The Philippine Star newspaper.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of plagiarized

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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

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Microsoft has forged relationships in recent years with a number of neoclouds, including CoreWeave, Nebius, Chronoscale, IREN, Lambda and Nscale, as well as with Oracle, which is pouring money into building out AI infrastructure.

— Jordan Novet,Seema Mody, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2026
Read ten books recommended by living people whose taste and intelligence are hard won and wholly singular, forged in the crucible of their idiosyncratic minds.

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of forged

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Brand was chaotic, dismissive and manipulated the people around him.

— K.J. Yossman, Variety, 6 Nov. 2026
The company says its investigation has yet to reveal any evidence that any investigation data has been accessed or Chainalysis attribution data has been manipulated.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 6 Nov. 2026

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