PLAGIARIZED Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

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as in copied

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verb

past tense of plagiarize

as in forged

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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The new Cambridge Analytica has plagiarized other 404 Media articles, in addition to reporting by the New York Times, Engadget, MIT Technology Review, and Wired. — Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 30 July 2026 Kinnock was among his generation’s greatest political orators—to the point that Joe Biden, then a senator from Delaware, plagiarized some of his most effective lines. — James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 21 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 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 This is the First Lady who plagiarized a speech by her nemesis Michelle Obama. — Katha Pollitt, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2026 In 1991, a committee of scholars concluded that King had plagiarized passages in his dissertation for a doctoral degree while a student at Boston University. — John Blake, CNN Money, 18 Jan. 2026 Yeong-in and Su-yeon had donated an art piece to the university hosting the art show that Ki-dae had suspected was plagiarized. — Kayti Burt, Time, 5 Dec. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for plagiarized

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No moral panic is more unoriginal than the fear that contemporary men are no longer as manly as the heroes who preceded them.

— Elizabeth Dray, STAT, 21 July 2026
Because that was the trend this week, and next week the same unoriginal dopes will be onto something else.

— Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 July 2026

Definition of unoriginal

Adjective

Their flavor is different, but many recipes are written for canned or jarred hearts rather than fresh artichokes.

— Bridget Shirvell, Martha Stewart, 7 Aug. 2026
The couple found canned food tucked away inside the house, along with furniture that had remained in place as decades passed.

— Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026

Definition of canned

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Your god-classes and workarounds become its conventions, reproduced fluently in every new file.

— Evan J. Schwartz, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
The synthetic images accurately reproduced the vortexes’ appearance and dynamics, including growth rate, distribution, and propagation speeds, which led the team to conclude their observations are most likely real.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of reproduced

Adjective

Yet the procedural is so formulaic and the twists so unbelievable that even the most lackadaisical viewer will likely solve the mysteries long before the truth is revealed.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
Barnes & Noble had just been taken private by Elliott Advisors for $683 million after sales declines driven by formulaic stores that had lost their charm.

— Phil Wahba, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of formulaic

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All eight club tracks follow the same basic template, one cribbed from Midwestern producers like Boo Williams and Paul Johnson, as well as early, ravey Daft Punk and, in particular, the take-no-prisoners cutups of Germany’s Soundhack.

— Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026
The colorway is also cribbed from that used to reveal the Air Jordan 28, as a black upper gives way to a highlighter green inner layer and shroud branding, as well as a translucent blue outsole.

— Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 9 Feb. 2026

Definition of cribbed

Adjective

The word is likely imitative (onomatopoeic), echoing the sound of heavy breathing during sleep.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2026
Since then, whenever new tools to crank out communications have become available, somebody has flooded the zone with the fastest, most imitative material that could garner attention.

— Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2025

Definition of imitative

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Bud Billiken, the page’s fictional editor/mascot described as the guardian and protector of children, was invented by Abbott and the Defender’s executive editor Lucius Harper.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026
All the other stuff, the journalist and the train ride and stuff like that, is invented.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026

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