How to Use plagiarism in a Sentence
plagiarism
noun- The student has been accused of plagiarism.
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There were all these kind of plagiarisms or homages to Soap in the show.
— Denise Martin, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024 -
There were people who knew there had been plagiarism and that some of what was in his stories was false.
— Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022 -
The site then runs a plagiarism check and examines whether the paper makes a harmful claim.
— Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 22 Oct. 2020 -
Thomas’s plagiarism of Lendino brought his caper to a close.
— David Streitfeld, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019 -
Just as a note: In social science, this is not plagiarism.
— The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Mar. 2021 -
In one of the film's most memorable scenes, the Clovers expose the Toros' plagiarism by performing the same routine at their game.
— Shama Nasinde, CNN, 25 Aug. 2020 -
After being accused of plagiarism, Wilson dropped out of school at the age of 15.
— Susan Glaser, cleveland, 21 Apr. 2022 -
A few months earlier, a judge had thrown out a plagiarism lawsuit against her.
— Cody Delistraty, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2020 -
The apparent plagiarism did not stop with the 2013 thesis.
— Bydaniel Garisto, science.org, 13 Apr. 2023 -
On and on it went, with as many as five or more instances of plagiarism in every single sermon.
— Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024 -
Eventually, there will be enough trust to talk about the plagiarism.
— Lori Gottlieb, The Cut, 18 Aug. 2017 -
Many claim this amounts to a high-tech form of plagiarism that could seriously harm human artists in the near future.
— Nik Popli, Time, 14 Dec. 2022 -
Some researchers want to crack down on undisclosed AI writing, to screen for it just as journals might screen for plagiarism.
— Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2023 -
But Biden was already sliding by the time those plagiarism stories hit.
— David Mark, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 July 2024 -
And a little bit of plagiarism just gives Biden something in common with Melania Trump.
— T.a. Frank, The Hive, 2 May 2017 -
Both state that students should learn how to identify and avoid plagiarism.
— Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2022 -
Most people don’t think that cookbooks have always been an act of plagiarism.
— Washington Post, 2 June 2021 -
Raines was felled, in large part, by the plagiarism and fraud perpetrated by a troubled young reporter, Jayson Blair.
— Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023 -
If imitation is the best form of flattery, plagiarism may well be the dumbest.
— Ian Bremmer, Time, 5 Mar. 2018 -
Chekhovich believes most instances are due to self-plagiarism.
— Dalmeet Singh Chawla, Science | AAAS, 8 Jan. 2020 -
Even within those contexts, a politician can get in trouble for plagiarism or its close cousins in speeches and books.
— Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024 -
Sheeran was dealing with a plagiarism lawsuit, his wife’s cancerous tumor, and the death of a close friend.
— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023 -
But the movie has hit some stumbling blocks on the path to Oscar glory, in the form of multiple allegations of plagiarism.
— Eliza Berman, Time, 1 Mar. 2018 -
The greatest damage that Ackman’s tweets have done may be to the debate over academic plagiarism.
— Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024 -
Elon Musk invents Neuralink, a tryborg plagiarism of the cyborg mind.
— The Cyborg Jillian Weise, Wired, 21 Dec. 2021 -
Making matters worse was the fact that Gay was the face of a university that was and is supposed to maintain standards against plagiarism.
— Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024 -
But in the academe there are standards, and plagiarism is considered breaking those standards.
— Mará Rose Williams, kansascity, 10 Aug. 2017 -
And of course there are the age-old plagiarism detectors, which have also evolved to detect ChatGPT use.
— WIRED, 28 June 2023 -
He was reportedly suspended for plagiarism after his first semester but returned in early 1989 and dropped out again later that year.
— Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2024
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