cribbing

Example Sentences

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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

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

Yes, he was always ambitious, skipping grades in school and occasionally even cribbing from other people’s work.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2023

"Say, I've discovered who's been cribbing all those pretty little stones up at my aunt's!"

From Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School by Chapman, Allen