as in to reproduce
to copy an idea, a piece of writing, etc., from someone else
She cribbed a line or two from her favorite poet.
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as in bassinet
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as in whorehouse
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Recent Examples of crib
Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2025
The concept of Moneyball—cribbed from Michael Lewis’s best seller about the cash-strapped and efficiency-obsessed Oakland A’s—has long since permeated pro sports.
—Jordan Sargent, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2025
Dennis Harvey, Variety, 4 Mar. 2025
Graco Sasha 5-in-1 convertible crib: on sale for $269.99
Original price: $299.99
Get a crib that grows with your baby.
—Christopher Murray, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2025
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Verb
The film’s core theme, that random events shape our fate and everything could have been different, is cribbed from Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Blind Chance (1987).
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2025
The concept of Moneyball—cribbed from Michael Lewis’s best seller about the cash-strapped and efficiency-obsessed Oakland A’s—has long since permeated pro sports.
—Jordan Sargent, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
Both have decided he should be thrown out of the family home, into cousin Mateo’s (Darius R. Autry) crib.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 4 Mar. 2025
Graco Sasha 5-in-1 convertible crib: on sale for $269.99
Original price: $299.99
Get a crib that grows with your baby.
—Christopher Murray, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crib
Verb
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This material is not to be reproduced or redistributed absent the written consent of Fairlead Strategies.—
Katie Stockton,
CNBC,
7 Apr. 2025
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Of those, 15 were meant to reproduce extinct dire wolf gene variants.—
Emily Mullin,
Wired News,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Some airplanes have bassinets, which can be requested but not guaranteed on the day of travel.—
Christine Chung,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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Internet users have praised a woman from Florida who bought a bassinet despite not having a baby.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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All sorts of automotive parts and hardware fill the tables at the Shih Yi booth at the WCX 2025 show in downtown Detroit.—
Ed Garsten,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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With a long bar, booths with slate tabletops, metal sculptures and large pieces from local artists such as Ted Moses, Peter Alexander and Laddie John Dill, the restaurant was effortlessly cool.—
Brad Johnson,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Dire wolves did overlap with early humans at the end of the Ice Age, around 11,500 years ago, but humans had barely invented agriculture at that point, let alone begun building the cities and interstate highways that would encroach upon the natural world.—
Andrea Marks,
Rolling Stone,
12 Apr. 2025
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Case managers invented case details and Deployed workers would role-play as students in classrooms, even asking for permission to go to the bathroom, according to the former Deployed workers and social media posts of former workers describing the surreal situation.—
Jeff Ernsthausen,
ProPublica,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Working inside the iconic 52-story-tall Vehicle Assembly Building, ground teams used heavy-duty cranes to first lift the butterscotch orange core stage from its cradle in the VAB's cavernous transfer aisle, the central passageway between the building's four rocket assembly bays.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
24 Mar. 2025
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Side and stomach sleepers will especially appreciate the side channels that cradle arms, as well as divots that minimize pressure on cheeks and ears.—
Miles Walls,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The city has sued a handful of property owners seeking to label their properties as public nuisances under the state's bawdy house statute.—
Mary Spicuzza,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
31 Oct. 2019
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There was probably at least one bawdy house, but it isn’t mentioned.—
Arthur Hart,
idahostatesman,
7 Apr. 2018
Noun
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Biographers have often portrayed af Klint as the lone artistic force behind her work, but Almqvist, who found Cassel’s notebooks in an unmarked box, has another perspective.—
Jay Cheshes,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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Hader unleashed a slider that started in the zone and ended in the right-handed batter’s box.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
Verb
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In Season 4 of the Max comedy, Deborah Vance and Ava Daniels have manipulated their way into their respective dream jobs as host and head writer of a late-night talk show on network TV.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Apr. 2025
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This country is being manipulated by two people — and those too afraid to have the courage to oppose them.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Crib.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crib. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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