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 company has come under fire from Forbes and other media outlets for allegedly plagiarizing their reporting and redistributing it across multiple platforms through a feature called Perplexity Pages.
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Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The security concerns are just the latest problem for Perplexity, as the company has come under fire from Forbes and other media outlets for allegedly plagiarizing their reporting and redistributing it across multiple platforms.
—Chris Dobstaff, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Look just to the recent past at their plagiarizing President, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States States [sic] Congress.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
The prepared text of McCarthy’s speech drew on those same themes, including lines plagiarized from then-Congressman (and Senate candidate) Richard Nixon.
—Made By History, TIME, 9 Feb. 2025
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Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The security concerns are just the latest problem for Perplexity, as the company has come under fire from Forbes and other media outlets for allegedly plagiarizing their reporting and redistributing it across multiple platforms.
—Chris Dobstaff, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Look just to the recent past at their plagiarizing President, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States States [sic] Congress.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
The prepared text of McCarthy’s speech drew on those same themes, including lines plagiarized from then-Congressman (and Senate candidate) Richard Nixon.
—Made By History, TIME, 9 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plagiarize
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In ideal conditions, flies reproduce in less than a week, says Oi.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
18 June 2025
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With the ability to reproduce an actor’s exact facial performance with little to no input from an animator, Dorothy can shoot 48 frames a second.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2025
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True market leadership isn’t built during stable times—it’s forged through uncertainty.—
Padmakumar Nair,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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Yet when the Obama Administration managed to forge a nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Netanyahu denounced it as weak.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
21 June 2025
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Vet Vendors Thoroughly There’s a lot of AI hype out there, with everyone claiming to have the greatest solution since the internet was invented.—
David Kelley,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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Trump administration lawyers are digging deep to find statutes that can justify the ongoing federal crackdown — including constitutional maneuvers invented to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2025
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Our Senate and representatives are all manipulating their own power rather than running the country.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
18 June 2025
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But the lesson of the ’74 Act is clear: Absent congressional will, lawmakers inevitably will find ways to manipulate their own rules to make deficits even worse.—
Howard Gleckman,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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The bank cribbed from a playbook established by AmEx by bundling perks around travel and dining, and later opened its own network of luxurious airport lounges.—
Hugh Son,
CNBC,
17 June 2025
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Pratik Sinha, of Alt News, pointed out that photos claiming to depict dead Pakistani militants actually showed victims of a heat wave; other images, ostensibly of the strikes, were cribbed from a video game called Arma 2.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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