crib
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One thing we didn’t want to bring was a travel crib, so I filtered carefully for vacation rentals that had one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
He used the AI assistant Claude to crib these from the desired skills listed in job postings for the kinds of roles he was targeting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
The office belonged to head coach Sean McVay, and now it features walls painted pink and light blue and a crib, a changing table and a menagerie of stuffed animals.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 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
My mother was wrestling my three-year-old baby brother into the crib in his little bedroom upstairs.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
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
Babyletto, a Los Angeles-based nursery furniture brand, is providing free cribs to any families that have lost their homes or been impacted by the fires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025
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
The basic idea was one that Elizebeth and her team had often used before, so they knew it was crucial to harvest as many cribs as they could from the South American messages.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Popular around my firehouse is a line directly cribbed from its military origins: “Death smiles at everyone. Firefighters smile back.”
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026
He cribbed the expression from Indian guru Meher Baba, but it could easily have been about momos in bull markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
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
He started a short-lived humor magazine, Read ’Em and Grin, mainly using jokes cribbed from other sources and selling ads to local merchants.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
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
You meant to stick to it, and you were cribbing from it on your knee.
From A Fortunate Term by Angela Brazil
