Example Sentences
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He cribbed the expression from Indian guru Meher Baba, but it could easily have been about momos in bull markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
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
Those mirrors, reflecting one another in a white-walled interior, transform a modestly scaled architectural space into something like a vast, vacant landscape cribbed from “Dune.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024
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
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
