crib
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Since the distance between slats was now deemed unsafe, Eric transformed the crib into blocks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
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
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
On the day of Thea's death, she was visited in the morning by a social worker who said the baby was in her crib, and that the mother had complained of feeling tired.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
And the bars on the side of his crib were made of wood; he gnawed on them while they thought he was sleeping.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
Both fine and applied arts make up the show, which includes objects ranging from paintings and prints to cribs, cabinets, light fixtures and hardware.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 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
These houses ranged from palaces filled with gold and velvet to the crummiest cribs where the stench would drive a pig away.
From "East of Eden" 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
They’ve sometimes cribbed the language of corporate diversity, equity and inclusion programs, labeling introverts as an underrepresented group, flagging bias against introverts when hiring and promoting, and referring to extroverts who support introverts as allies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 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
The kills are a desperate bid for mythic carnage status, and the world is a dystopian cartoon unimaginatively cribbed from “The Hunger Games.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 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
As a teaser trailer released late last year noted, with a bit of cribbing from Peter Jackson, “the age of toys is over.”
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026
Thomas Weber, an expert on German history, pointed out that in modern Germany one far-right party has been cribbing wholesale from parts of the Nazi party manifesto.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2024
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
One man, who was as honorable in all respects as most fellows, related how he had been caught cribbing.
From An American at Oxford by John Corbin
