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adjective

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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Recent Examples of plagiarized
Verb
La Presse said that a 2012 short story by Orelien had plagiarized passages from a book by French author Louis Pauwels, while a 2013 opinion piece copied from The Philippine Star newspaper. — CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026 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 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
  1. unoriginal
  2. forged
  3. canned
  4. reproduced
  5. formulaic
  6. cribbed
  7. imitative
  8. invented
Adjective
  • Summary Leaders are increasingly sounding generic, often using similar buzzwords, a trend exacerbated by AI's ability to generate competent but unoriginal communication.
    — Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of unoriginal
Verb
  • The Sierra takes the luxury angle further with available real and forged wood trim, a panoramic sunroof, and the sort of plush detailing that would have seemed absurd in a work truck a couple of decades ago.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2026
  • But while turnstiles spun — on Thursday, the club announced a record 4,034,219 fans showed up this season to witness Ohtani’s greatness — everyone forged foolishly forward.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of forged
Adjective
  • The 51-year-old Grapevine resident shopped with his wife, Janice, 50, for canned goods, rice and flour.
    — Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Instead, look for canned options in water or olive oil with no or low sodium.
    — Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of canned
Verb
  • Instead of providing more security, its obfuscation tactics challenged experts, who then reproduced—and improved upon—the result.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Other paintings and drawings are reproduced through embroidery, embossing and enameled charms, which adorn decorative chains.
    — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of reproduced
Adjective
  • The inherent challenge in making films dealing with progressive illness is not succumbing to an inescapably formulaic structure that can’t help but go with the territory.
    — Michael Rechtshaffen, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Even though the tides are slowly turning, many video games have formulaic plots that reinforce old-school gender and heteronormative roles, often featuring a hero saving a damsel in distress from a menacing villain.
    — Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of formulaic
Verb
  • Facing the less-than-impressed detectives, Bret puts forth his theory of the Trawler, which he’s largely cribbed from Joan Didion’s writing on Charles Manson.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of cribbed
Adjective
  • Using techniques like input-dependent computation and gating, the liquid AI design gives us substantially greater power to access the human-like cognition, albeit imitative, of the machines.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 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
Verb
  • Motorola invented the mobile phone, but by the time Brown was handed the reins, its cellphone business had been outpaced by Nokia and Samsung.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • At 21-Across, the [American architect who invented Scrabble while unemployed during the Great Depression] is ALFRED BUTTS.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of invented

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“Plagiarized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plagiarized. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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