crib
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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
The crib looks exactly the same as it did in the ’90s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 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
With as little noise as possible, I closed the crib door, locked it, and we went back to the house.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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
Many people here treat their monkeys like children, swaddling them in cribs at night and dressing them in diapers — cutting a hole for their long tails to peek through.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
She found a website that cribs audio from police radio channels, she testified.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
But the last time he remembered the white walls and the rows of cribs.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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
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
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
The test shows a high correlation with mental age, but more than most others it is subject to the influence of cribbing.
From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
