Thesaurus results for CRIBBING

cribbing

verb

Definition of cribbing

present participle of crib

as in inventing

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 cribbing Although his personal favorite interpretation is Craig’s, the actor wanted to focus on the philosophical pillars of the character, rather than cribbing from anyone else’s work. — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2026

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Australia’s real innovation was not inventing another account.

— Kris Iyer, Fortune, 22 July 2026
One Round, Not Five Selective universities have spent a decade inventing ways to lock in committed students early.

— Jamie Beaton, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026

Definition of inventing

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Both are easier than plagiarizing Wikipedia ever was!

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 13 Apr. 2026
Rankings influence many disciplines and can mutate values as well as goals, leading academics to such unscholarly behaviors as plagiarizing others’ work, unintentionally manipulating data, or outright falsifying it.

— Big Think, Big Think, 20 Feb. 2026

Definition of plagiarizing

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Koons’s company was also ordered to pay $12,500 for reproducing an image from the artist’s website, while the publisher was ordered to pay $2,300 for selling a book containing images of the work.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 22 July 2026
Another risk is that AI is very good at reproducing common language.

— Rena Fallstrom, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of reproducing

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Even as the market grows uneasy about AI infrastructure spending levels, the companies designing and making the chips are forging ahead.

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 27 July 2026
Green has also been accused of forging signatures on affidavits, giving false testimony and other offenses, per the outlet.

— Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026

Definition of forging

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Pamela Smart, whose conviction for manipulating her teenage lover into killing her husband became one of America's most notorious murder cases, has asked a New Hampshire judge to let her latest bid for a new trial move forward.

— Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2026
Football is all about engaño (trickery) — looking one way and passing the other, feinting to go left and swiftly moving right, manipulating the opposition and tricking them to open up those little spaces.

— Xavi, New York Times, 19 July 2026

Definition of manipulating

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It was supposed to relight its engines for a landing burn off the coast of Texas, simulating maneuvers required to return the booster back to the launch pad for recovery and reuse.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 25 July 2026
In their new study, the HZDR team says the effect could become especially important for adiabatic quantum computers, a class of machines widely studied for solving optimization problems, searching massive datasets, and simulating molecules.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 25 July 2026

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