How to Use plagiarism in a Sentence

plagiarism

noun
  • The student has been accused of plagiarism.
  • 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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