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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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Recent Examples of plagiarized
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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
  1. unoriginal
  2. forged
  3. canned
  4. reproduced
  5. formulaic
  6. cribbed
  7. imitative
  8. invented
Adjective
  • 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
Verb
  • Through its correspondence course, OBOD extended its influence internationally and by the early 21st century had forged the most popular model for Druids throughout the world.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
  • But with that connection to Jack, initially forged as foster siblings but later as opioid buddies, comes risk.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of forged
Adjective
  • Party Potatoes has the three C’s of comfort food—carbs, canned soup, and cheese.
    — Libby Monteith Minor, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of canned
Verb
  • Numerical simulations reproduced the experimental results and indicated that nonreciprocal pair propulsion is the minimal mechanism needed to sustain the unusual cluster dynamics.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Your god-classes and workarounds become its conventions, reproduced fluently in every new file.
    — Evan J. Schwartz, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of reproduced
Adjective
  • Like the latter, Lanterns is smarter, more mature, less formulaic, and more stylishly made than the identikit Marvel brand extensions that are now the industry standard.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Not only would the ’70s see a precipitous rise of in the number of Hollywood sequels, but any film that managed to cut through the zeitgeist gave birth to handfuls of quick, formulaic, often cheaply made, copycats.
    — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of formulaic
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Bob Iger, who built Disney around owning stories the world already loved, is now buying the story Buss invented.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Characters like Roth have always invented themselves in New York.
    — Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of invented

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