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past tense of plagiarize

plagiarized

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adjective

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Recent Examples of plagiarized
Adjective
Missy's brooding brother Cliff (Bradford) homes in on Torrance as a potential love connection, while Torrance leads the Toros to a stunning defeat at the hands of the East Compton Clovers after it's revealed that Big Red plagiarized the routine charted out by their impeccable captain Isis (Union). Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2025 Katie Wiseman New evidence alleges Indiana University President Pamela Whitten plagiarized her dissertation, The Herald-Times reported last week. Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plagiarized
Verb
  • Paoletta and Vought quickly forged an alliance.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Suarez has forged extensive ties to Saudi Arabia in recent years, having traveled there multiple times as part of his work for the international litigation firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, where Suarez is of counsel.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • This article originally appeared in Spektrum der Wissenschaft and was reproduced with permission.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In sales, trust is currency, and nothing burns trust faster than sounding unoriginal, lazy or shady.
    Don Markland, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Meta said unoriginal content is when images or videos are reused without crediting the original creator.
    Zach Vallese, CNBC, 14 July 2025
Verb
  • The continent that invented and spun out the internet from its first-class research institutions now risks standing by as US founders scale with ease.
    Jan Hammer, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
  • After at least half a decade of acute concern about the way that platforms such as Instagram may affect young people, as well as intense debate about how best to keep kids safe online, Meta has arrived at a label that was invented in the 1980s because parents were upset by movies such as Gremlins.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • There’s been no improvement in their real economy despite a stock market that seems manipulated higher, a la 2016.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Its quantum state can be precisely prepared, manipulated and measured by experimenters.
    Zhixin Wang, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Keep canned fish and beans on hand for quick, protein-rich meals.
    Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Budget-friendly, protein-packed, and often requiring not more than a dump-and-stir, canned beans are the perfect ingredient for making something out of nothing.
    Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Whether that stemmed more from the lack of roster depth or from Malone’s formulaic rotations is up for debate.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Critics might say: If consumers can’t tell the real from the robotic, why is AI any worse than the heap of creatively threadbare and formulaic stuff made by humans?
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Conversations in dorm rooms and lecture halls consist of roughly 97% university-loathing and imitative protests to fire coaches and athletic directors.
    Noah White, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Third-party imitative learning from an immigrating parrot’s flockmates may facilitate overall group integration and social bonding and may even give rise to cultural conventions of coordinated movements or gestures.
    GrrlScientist, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025

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