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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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Recent Examples of cribbed
Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
Noah is constantly making sermons or toasts cribbed from Talmud for Netflix Subscribers.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
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But there's something a bit anticlimactic about ending it in that basement, as if the characters never had lives outside the archetypes the show made for them, cribbed from a role-playing game.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for cribbed
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No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.—
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This article originally appeared in Spektrum der Wissenschaft and was reproduced with permission.—
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Yeong-in and Su-yeon had donated an art piece to the university hosting the art show that Ki-dae had suspected was plagiarized.—
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The paper also has covered allegations that IU President Pamela Whitten plagiarized parts of her dissertation, with the most recent story running in September.—
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Fresh, store- or restaurant-bought soups may balance convenience and quality, while canned varieties are the most shelf-stable but typically rely on higher sodium levels, preservatives and usually have less to offer nutritionally.—
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Nonperishables are important for this, so canned and other shelf-stable foods are important to have on standby.—
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Is this new cookie a tribute to William Dreyer, who is rumored to have invented Rocky Road in Oakland back in 1929?—
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And the telephone had just been invented that year, so few could call the Chicago Tribune and complain about not having the Cubs score in their edition.—
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An on-stage talk with an art critic—what seems like a formulaic exposition of Kristian’s photography—becomes the occasion of a fatal revelation.—
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Here, hotels can’t just scrape by with formulaic concepts.—
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Iron cowbells are either forged or cast and are the heaviest material.—
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The upper chamber has forged ahead with its own effort at developing legislation, with the Senate Banking Committee and Senate Agriculture Committee working separately on their portions of the bill.—
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This makes your home feel intentional and personal instead of sterile and unoriginal.—
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This seems a rather unoriginal name to be chosen by a woman whose talent lay with words.—
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Freedom from fear mattered because frightened societies are easily manipulated.—
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In some cases, CBS News ran images through AI detection tools, which can be inconsistent or inaccurate but can still help flag possibly manipulated content.—
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“Cribbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cribbed. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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