Thesaurus results for PLAGIARIZE

plagiarize

verb

Definition of plagiarize

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 An artist has demanded the organizers of Manifesta 16 remove an installation from the exhibition in Essen, Germany, alleging that a piece in the show plagiarizes one of her earlier works. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 2 July 2026 His 1534 revision was heavily used – plagiarized would be a better word – by almost all English translations over the next hundred years. — Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 30 June 2026 The book was later pulled from circulation amid the revelation that Hill plagiarized a portion. — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 15 May 2026 Both are easier than plagiarizing Wikipedia ever was! — ArsTechnica, 13 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for plagiarize

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During the previous internal sprint, engineers used Codex to investigate findings, reproduce vulnerabilities in isolated environments, and prepare patches for review.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
APIs allow researchers to automate prompts, standardize experiments, collect responses and large volumes of data, as well as test models at scale, making results easier to compare and reproduce.

— Katie McQue, NPR, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of reproduce

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Hreljanovic’s lawyers said that a key document — purportedly assigning the rights from Olsen to DeFalco — had been forged.

— Gene Maddaus, Variety, 3 Nov. 2026
Arden, of course, is a director who knows both how to create potent visual pictures and how to forge kinetic movement within them.

— Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2026

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With instant messaging yet to be invented, 11 am—the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month—was chosen to be the time when hostilities would officially cease in order to allow news of the armistice to reach the front lines.

— Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Nov. 2026
The Brick, invented in early 2023, is the latest attempt at limiting screen time and fighting phone addiction.

— Jane Miller, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026

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Having already cribbed Reels from TikTok and Stories from Snapchat, Instagram is coming for a piece of YouTube’s long-form pie.

— Julia Black, Vanity Fair, 27 Oct. 2026
The new breed of post-rock bands, on the other hand, were cribbing ideas from the worlds of dance music and hip-hop.

— Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2026

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