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
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.
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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
The song wouldn’t be released until the following year, at which point the rising pop star would be called out for plagiarizing its lyrics from a popular Tumblr post.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2024
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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
The song wouldn’t be released until the following year, at which point the rising pop star would be called out for plagiarizing its lyrics from a popular Tumblr post.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plagiarize
Verb
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The results clearly reproduced a similar pattern to earlier research.—
Samuel Axon,
ArsTechnica,
27 Mar. 2025
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This phenomenon, called multilevel selection, is an extension of natural selection: the process by which organisms with traits better suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.—
Conner Philson,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2025
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Against an unstable, precarious world, designers forged ahead making clothes for future versions of us—six months into the future, but into the future nonetheless.—
Laia Garcia-Furtado,
Vogue,
19 Mar. 2025
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Without their go-to scorer and clutch performer, the Knicks are forging a new identity as a stout defensive team.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
18 Mar. 2025
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So far, President Donald Trump has invented a bunch of bogus ones and Congress almost opened the door to a real one when Democrats contemplated allowing a government shutdown last week.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
19 Mar. 2025
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The automatic flour mill was invented in the late 1700s.—
Ken Fleming,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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Some billions of years later, some of that multicellular life figured out how to be reasonably smart and start using tools to manipulate and control its environment.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
26 Mar. 2025
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Cybercriminals can trick authentication systems, approve fraudulent transactions or even manipulate corporate communications.—
Khurram Akhtar,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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This isn’t about memorizing the job description—largely a meaningless hodgepodge of skills, qualifications and platitudes about work style and culture cribbed from past job descriptions and competitors’ postings.—
Michael B. Horn,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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If Indiana’s football coach, after cribbing the Prime Method, is worth $8 million annually through 2032 to the Hoosiers, shouldn’t Sanders be worth at least as much for hoisting the Buffs back onto the college football map?—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
14 Jan. 2025
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“Plagiarize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plagiarize. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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