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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 plagiarized
Michael Bruening,
The Conversation,
30 June 2026
The book was later pulled from circulation amid the revelation that Hill plagiarized a portion.
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N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
In the mind of the plagiarized, as often as not, what has been perpetrated is nothing less than an outrage.
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Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
This is the First Lady who plagiarized a speech by her nemesis Michelle Obama.
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Katha Pollitt,
Washington Post,
5 Feb. 2026
In 1991, a committee of scholars concluded that King had plagiarized passages in his dissertation for a doctoral degree while a student at Boston University.
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John Blake,
CNN Money,
18 Jan. 2026
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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Kayti Burt,
Time,
5 Dec. 2025
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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Todd Richmond,
Twin Cities,
17 Oct. 2025
Missy's brooding brother Cliff (Bradford) homes in on Torrance as a potential love connection, while Torrance leads the Toros to a stunning defeat at the hands of the East Compton Clovers after it's revealed that Big Red plagiarized the routine charted out by their impeccable captain Isis (Union).
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Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Sep. 2025
Verb
His 1534 revision was heavily used – plagiarized would be a better word – by almost all English translations over the next hundred years.
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Michael Bruening,
The Conversation,
30 June 2026
The book was later pulled from circulation amid the revelation that Hill plagiarized a portion.
—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
In the mind of the plagiarized, as often as not, what has been perpetrated is nothing less than an outrage.
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Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
This is the First Lady who plagiarized a speech by her nemesis Michelle Obama.
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Katha Pollitt,
Washington Post,
5 Feb. 2026
In 1991, a committee of scholars concluded that King had plagiarized passages in his dissertation for a doctoral degree while a student at Boston University.
—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
18 Jan. 2026
Yeong-in and Su-yeon had donated an art piece to the university hosting the art show that Ki-dae had suspected was plagiarized.
—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
5 Dec. 2025
The paper also has covered allegations that IU President Pamela Whitten plagiarized parts of her dissertation, with the most recent story running in September.
—
Todd Richmond,
Twin Cities,
17 Oct. 2025
Missy's brooding brother Cliff (Bradford) homes in on Torrance as a potential love connection, while Torrance leads the Toros to a stunning defeat at the hands of the East Compton Clovers after it's revealed that Big Red plagiarized the routine charted out by their impeccable captain Isis (Union).
—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plagiarized
Adjective
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The film's trailer looked unoriginal and uninteresting.
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The first stage began in July 2025, when Meta announced comprehensive measures targeting accounts that repeatedly share unoriginal content without meaningful enhancement, building on enforcement actions that had already been taken against 500,000 accounts in the first half of the year.
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The two previously forged a bond while spending time together in London during the pandemic in 2020.
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So Continental Army leadership forged ahead on the last, short, dark day of 1775.
Adjective
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Just look for canned pineapple packed in 100% juice, not heavy syrup.
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Though the restaurant wrapped up its collections earlier this week, Alviany Dominguez, 53, still stopped by Wednesday morning to donate canned food.
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The watch revives the brand’s iconic A384 case from 1969, faithfully reproduced in its distinctive 37mm tonneau shape.
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There are parts of her practice that can easily be reproduced.
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Plath famously spent years trying and failing to master formulaic, commercial short fiction for magazines like Ladies’ Home Journal and The Saturday Evening Post.
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Craft unique, non-formulaic hooks to grab attention.
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All eight club tracks follow the same basic template, one cribbed from Midwestern producers like Boo Williams and Paul Johnson, as well as early, ravey Daft Punk and, in particular, the take-no-prisoners cutups of Germany’s Soundhack.
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The colorway is also cribbed from that used to reveal the Air Jordan 28, as a black upper gives way to a highlighter green inner layer and shroud branding, as well as a translucent blue outsole.
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The word is likely imitative (onomatopoeic), echoing the sound of heavy breathing during sleep.
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Since then, whenever new tools to crank out communications have become available, somebody has flooded the zone with the fastest, most imitative material that could garner attention.
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Listen to this week’s episode to learn more, including the story of how a Civil War vet and morphine addict accidentally invented the world’s most famous soda.
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Herman Hollerith, son of German immigrants, invented the punch card tabulator that became the technological foundation for IBM.
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“Plagiarized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plagiarized. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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