cribbing
present participle ofcribinformaldisapproving
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Cribbingis one extremity of a continuous spectrum, the other, that exalted activity of creating art.
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With the enormous body of scholarship and secondary material now written, one must be a very advanced don to keep track ofcribbing.
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There is no way of legally curbing the excesses of delinquent newspapers without curbing andcribbingthe vital work of the best newspapers.
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Who has done thecribbingon this occasion?
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I confess to shamelesslycribbingfrom her greater knowledge of these matters.
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It was significant that some of the research teams were alreadycribbinggently that there was no provision for this, that, and the other.
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I refer to the practice of timecribbing.
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During the last year there have been 419 cases of timecribbingtaken to the courts.
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We serve ourselves ill bycribbingabout a single currency.
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If they consistently get the wrong answer, it is possible that they have beencribbingfrom each other.
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Then there is the question of timecribbing.
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The charge ofcribbingwas never proved.
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Timecribbingmay be explained in this way.
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Blocks are the bread and butter ofcribbingand will be used in mostcribbingevolutions.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The wear of teeth may also be affected by diet, natural abnormalities, andcribbing.
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