cribbing

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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

Did being sued by Marvin Gaye’s estate for cribbing from his music in “Blurred Lines” affect your ability to enjoy Gaye’s stuff?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 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

In country where stone cannot be found, the fireplace is often built of mud, sustained by an outside cribbing of logs.

From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America