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 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 In the mind of the plagiarized, as often as not, what has been perpetrated is nothing less than an outrage. — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for plagiarize

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That copying, by providing a way to reproduce and evolve, could have then kicked off the beginning of life.

— Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
To prove their point, Forte and Otoleva attempted to reproduce the aural and visual conditions of the tombs in their day.

— Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of reproduce

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Combs was a beacon of inspiration not just for the Black community, but for those who admired the classic American spirit of forging one’s own destiny.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
With striking speed, the widespread debate around data centers has become a fault line in American communities, cutting across political parties, splitting constituencies and forging unexpected alliances.

— Scott Neuman, NPR, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of forge

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Across both commercial ambient platforms and general-purpose models applied to clinical documentation, the more common failure is under-capture rather than inventing what wasn’t said.

— Pat Williams, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Bubble tea, with its chewy tapioca boba pearls, was invented in Taiwan in the 1980s.

— Dee-Ann Durbin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of invent

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Posters are editing and manipulating the recordings to distort their content.

— Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
But even if the risks are merely bad—like hacking into a single financial institution or hospital, manipulating the stock market, or taking out an electrical grid—suing a company after the fact won’t really provide the outcome society wants.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of manipulate

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Then there’s Sula, whose ending James borrows, tweaking the circumstances but cribbing the emotional beats.

— Tembe Denton-Hurst, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
Labels are cut off the clothing, not merely to deter competitors from cribbing their inventory, but to ensure the focus remains on the wondrously eclectic pieces, and not on who might have designed them.

— New York Times, New York Times, 31 July 2026

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