crib
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He built the baby crib that welcomed a couple’s first child.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Once a baby arrives, even the best-laid plans can fly out of the crib quicker than an unwanted Tickle Me Elmo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
She claimed Thea had been sleeping in a bedside crib and she herself had taken a nap, but was woken by a neighbour ringing the doorbell.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
Maybe it has something to do with being a volleyball player since he could walk, though a basketball was put in his crib.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
One girl with her back to us is bent over a crib, but she stands when Judith calls her name.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
I also looked into services that rent out items like strollers, cribs and high chairs, and Vrbo has a partnership with one such company, BabyQuip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The findings, published in the journal Nature, show that the structures known as queen cells, sometimes called "royal cribs," are much more than protective containers.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
The syndrome is also called “crib death,” because infants often die in their cribs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2024
She also wants the state to provide funding for free portable cribs for economically disadvantaged New Yorkers in an effort to reduce the number of infant deaths related to unsafe sleep settings.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
And there were advertisements for gadgets, fascinating things, for cooking, cleaning, washing clothes, furniture and beds and cribs.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
Critic W. David Marx, looking to sum up the curiously stagnant opening decades of the 21st century, cribbed a phrase from one of its enduring icons for the title of his book “Blank Space.”
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Eventually you’ll have the pleasure of reminding new colleagues that their pop-culture touchstones were cribbed from your youth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
She was 17 when they wed, beginning a royal partnership that seemed cribbed from a fairytale and would span almost seven decades.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025
Our “mission” is insipid, cribbed from bad sci-fi.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2023
It would perhaps be unfair to say that the Romans cribbed their calendar from “decadent” Egypt, but not unfair by much.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
I’ve done the same a hundred times, cribbing from emails to compose essays, from text messages to finish poems.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025
Firefighters secured the truck with “a grip hoist, grade 100 chain, and 6-inch vehicle strap cribbing, straps to keep the massively heavy vehicle from rolling any further forward,” fire officials posted on Facebook.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 26, 2023
The discipline already had a “massive plagiarism problem” with students borrowing computer code from friends or cribbing it from the internet, said MacKellar.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2023
Another, in the gated community of Portuguese Bend, is perched on eight feet of timber cribbing, a makeshift remedy that essentially suspends the property on supersize Jenga blocks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
There, by cribbing across the bottom, they got in a temporary line.
From Whispering Smith by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
