as in to reproduce
to use the words or ideas of another person as if they were your own words or ideas
He plagiarized a classmate's report.
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Recent Examples of plagiarize
The company has come under fire from Forbes and other media outlets for allegedly plagiarizing their reporting and redistributing it across multiple platforms through a feature called Perplexity Pages.
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Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The security concerns are just the latest problem for Perplexity, as the company has come under fire from Forbes and other media outlets for allegedly plagiarizing their reporting and redistributing it across multiple platforms.
—Chris Dobstaff, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Look just to the recent past at their plagiarizing President, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States States [sic] Congress.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
The prepared text of McCarthy’s speech drew on those same themes, including lines plagiarized from then-Congressman (and Senate candidate) Richard Nixon.
—Made By History, TIME, 9 Feb. 2025
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Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The security concerns are just the latest problem for Perplexity, as the company has come under fire from Forbes and other media outlets for allegedly plagiarizing their reporting and redistributing it across multiple platforms.
—Chris Dobstaff, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Look just to the recent past at their plagiarizing President, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States States [sic] Congress.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
The prepared text of McCarthy’s speech drew on those same themes, including lines plagiarized from then-Congressman (and Senate candidate) Richard Nixon.
—Made By History, TIME, 9 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plagiarize
Verb
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Zinnias are annual flowers—their life goal is to reproduce.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
7 June 2025
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Rather than musically reproduce street sounds and people sounds, Chin transforms them into spectacular orchestral chatter.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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That perspective, forged through experience and gratitude, keeps him grounded when the stakes feel highest.—
Sindiswa Mabunda,
Forbes.com,
9 June 2025
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Also, Leos are known to forge their path — closely resembling Mikey‘s use of One-Eyed Willy’s map to search for the Liberator’s treasure.—
Lisa Stardust,
People.com,
7 June 2025
Verb
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It’s been said that Brian invented the state of California, the state of mind.—
August Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2025
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Wall Street occasionally invents merry-go-rounds that work for a while but lack obvious exit strategies.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
12 June 2025
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Not possessed of any special abilities, Achebe instead manipulates his ways into political power in Wakanda.—
Michileen Martin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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Deepfakes are manipulated images, audio recordings, or videos of real people that have been altered with artificial intelligence to misrepresent someone as saying or doing something that the person did not actually say or do.—
Alain Sherter,
CBS News,
6 June 2025
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Wayne’s World Wayne says that line is cribbed from a Birdman bar on an old Cash Money track.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2025
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Tommy pulls up to the behemoth and explains the petro facts of life in a speech that could have been cribbed from the American Petroleum Institute’s website.—
Stephen Rodrick,
Rolling Stone,
9 Mar. 2025
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“Plagiarize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plagiarize. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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