as in forging
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 plagiarizing
Rankings influence many disciplines and can mutate values as well as goals, leading academics to such unscholarly behaviors as plagiarizing others’ work, unintentionally manipulating data, or outright falsifying it.
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Big Think, 20 Feb. 2026
Buster attended the same law school starting in 2018, but he was kicked out for low grades and allegedly plagiarizing in the summer of 2019, per The State.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
By their thinking, the AI company is a free-rider plagiarizing their movies and TV shows.
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
After the political satirist used part of his Sunday show to blast Cain's recent decision to join the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the actor hit back, accusing the comedian of plagiarizing his jokes.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
Here's what happens to Indiana University students when they are caught plagiarizing.
—Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 12 Aug. 2025
Mexican authorities accused sportswear company Adidas of plagiarizing artisans in southern Mexico, alleging that a new sandal design is strikingly similar to the traditional Indigenous footwear known as huaraches.
—Jeremy Mikula, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025
Big Think, 20 Feb. 2026
Buster attended the same law school starting in 2018, but he was kicked out for low grades and allegedly plagiarizing in the summer of 2019, per The State.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
By their thinking, the AI company is a free-rider plagiarizing their movies and TV shows.
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
After the political satirist used part of his Sunday show to blast Cain's recent decision to join the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the actor hit back, accusing the comedian of plagiarizing his jokes.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
Here's what happens to Indiana University students when they are caught plagiarizing.
—Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 12 Aug. 2025
Mexican authorities accused sportswear company Adidas of plagiarizing artisans in southern Mexico, alleging that a new sandal design is strikingly similar to the traditional Indigenous footwear known as huaraches.
—Jeremy Mikula, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plagiarizing
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The companies involved were accused of faking documents presented to Nepali authorities and insurance companies, as well as forging passenger and cargo manifests, Nepali police said in a press release last month.—
Manish Paudel,
NBC news,
3 Apr. 2026
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OpenAI might be pulling back on video generation, but Google is forging ahead with a major AI update to its Vids editing product.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
2 Apr. 2026
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Despite religious and phenotypic differences, people around the western Mediterranean Sea have been interacting, trading, warring, migrating, and reproducing together for centuries.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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Vexingly, the war with Iran is reproducing in macrocosm what those wars taught in microcosm.—
Bernard Avishai,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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But about 20 years later, Houdry read about Haagy’s discovery of the cause-effect between cars and smog, and turned his talent to inventing a catalytic converter process, essentially undoing his catalytic cracker and scrubbing pollution from gasoline.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2026
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What about inventing or discovering something that makes the world a better place?—
Mariel Carr,
Scientific American,
20 Mar. 2026
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Full-palm tactile sensing allows the robot to continue manipulating objects even when cameras are obstructed or when precise force control is required, such as in assembly tasks.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Mar. 2026
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Orban started manipulating these grievances, and did so to significantly divide Hungarian society.—
John Shattuck,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Plagiarizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plagiarizing. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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