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
Min accused the new band of deliberately plagiarizing NewJeans’ look, music and choreography, an allegation the label has denied.
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Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
The research misconduct allegations keep coming at Harvard, as a leading neuroscientist is now under the microscope for possibly falsifying data and plagiarizing images in his groundbreaking research about aggressive brain tumors and stem cells.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
News outlets have argued that OpenAI and Microsoft — which is in business with OpenAI and also has been sued by The Mercury News — have plagiarized and stole its articles, undermining their business models.
—Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 13 Dec. 2024
First, her alliance relationship with Travis Kelce made her into football’s biggest star, and now she’s solidified her truce with another powerful group of straight men: annoying frat bros who love to plagiarize.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024
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Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
The research misconduct allegations keep coming at Harvard, as a leading neuroscientist is now under the microscope for possibly falsifying data and plagiarizing images in his groundbreaking research about aggressive brain tumors and stem cells.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
News outlets have argued that OpenAI and Microsoft — which is in business with OpenAI and also has been sued by The Mercury News — have plagiarized and stole its articles, undermining their business models.
—Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 13 Dec. 2024
First, her alliance relationship with Travis Kelce made her into football’s biggest star, and now she’s solidified her truce with another powerful group of straight men: annoying frat bros who love to plagiarize.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plagiarize
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This material is not to be reproduced or redistributed absent the written consent of Fairlead Strategies.—
Katie Stockton,
CNBC,
7 Apr. 2025
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Of those, 15 were meant to reproduce extinct dire wolf gene variants.—
Emily Mullin,
Wired News,
7 Apr. 2025
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The film, which is represented internationally by Pathé, follows a woman who leaves her hometown to forge a bigger and better life for herself, but must return home because of a family emergency.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2025
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Cuban forged a particular bond with Dumont, sensing long-term business opportunities with the son-in-law of Miriam Adelson, Sheldon’s widow.—
C. Clark, D. Aldridge, S. Amick, F. Katz,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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My parents bought us an old swing set with a slide way back when (this was before plastic swing sets were invented).—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
6 Apr. 2025
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These date shakes are deliciously creamy concoctions made of milk or ice cream and blended with date crystals invented by Shield’s Date Garden.—
Pat Doherty,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Apr. 2025
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While Ticketmaster denies using surge pricing or dynamic algorithms to manipulate prices, fans like Jessica Chou question if their early participation in presales might be contributing to higher initial costs.—
Caché McClay,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2025
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Decades earlier, Loftus had demonstrated that people’s memories of visual details could be manipulated by posing questions that contained misinformation.—
Bernice Andrews,
Scientific American,
8 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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In fact, no small portion of the Royal Swedish Academy’s technical backgrounder (PDF) released to the media this morning could have been cribbed from this in-depth Spectrum consideration of nearly a quarter-century ago.—
Tekla S. Perry,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 Oct. 2023
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“Plagiarize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plagiarize. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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