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
Marathon cannot stop being thrown into fresh drama every few days since its controversial Closed Alpha which led to a string of reports about things going poorly internally, capped off by a revelation that an artist had plagiarized art currently still in the game.
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Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
And one commencement speaker—musician Evelyn Harris at Smith College—relinquished her honorary degree after admitting that parts of her speech were plagiarized.
—Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Smith College did not immediately respond to USA TODAY's request late Wednesday for more information about her speech and what the school says was plagiarized.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 23 May 2025
Baker filed a suit in 2022 alleging that Coates' The Water Dancer plagiarized content from his Shock Exchange: How Inner-City Kids From Brooklyn Predicted the Great Recession and the Pain Ahead.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
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Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
And one commencement speaker—musician Evelyn Harris at Smith College—relinquished her honorary degree after admitting that parts of her speech were plagiarized.
—Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Smith College did not immediately respond to USA TODAY's request late Wednesday for more information about her speech and what the school says was plagiarized.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 23 May 2025
Baker filed a suit in 2022 alleging that Coates' The Water Dancer plagiarized content from his Shock Exchange: How Inner-City Kids From Brooklyn Predicted the Great Recession and the Pain Ahead.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plagiarize
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The disease is considered a highly invasive tumor in the central nervous system because its cells reproduce extremely quickly.—
Vanessa Etienne,
People.com,
23 July 2025
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The name McKim, Mead & White evokes the image of three portly, middle-aged men, because the most frequently reproduced photograph of the trio was taken around 1905, when all three partners were in their fifties.—
Henry Wiencek
July 22,
Literary Hub,
22 July 2025
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While the partnership is forging ahead and expects to break ground in 2027, the project still faces myriad challenges.—
Ella McCarthy,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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To this end, campaigners forged an equivalence between taking sugar and drinking human blood.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 July 2025
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Flip invented the Wheezer Scale for gauging the difficulty of hiking up hills.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 July 2025
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Computer researchers invented the technique in the 1990s to screen bots from entering information into websites, originally using images with letters and numbers written in wiggly fonts, often obscured with lines or noise to foil computer vision algorithms.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 July 2025
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Fast-forward to this month, when Paramount agreed to a $16 million settlement to move past Trump's claims that CBS's 60 Minutes deceptively manipulated a pre-election interview with Kamala Harris.—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
25 July 2025
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As for Tretter, Ferguson was more sympathetic despite whispers that the former Cleveland Browns guard from Akron Central High might have manipulated Howell’s rise to the NFLPA throne in exchange for a leadership role himself.—
Tim Graham,
New York Times,
24 July 2025
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For starters, the Fenix 8 has cribbed the depth sensor from its Descent line, which means this everyday watch now works as a full-on dive computer for recreational scuba as well as free diving.—
Adrienne So,
Wired News,
2 June 2025
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The bank cribbed from a playbook established by AmEx by bundling perks around travel and dining, and later opened its own network of luxurious airport lounges.—
Hugh Son,
CNBC,
17 June 2025
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