PLAGIARIZED Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

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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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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 The paper also has covered allegations that IU President Pamela Whitten plagiarized parts of her dissertation, with the most recent story running in September. — Todd Richmond, Twin Cities, 17 Oct. 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

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By the end of the evening, fueled by a few glasses of wine and a handful of casual board games, new friendships were forged and potentially long-lasting connections made.

— Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 31 July 2026
If an agreement isn’t forged, the concern is that the Blazers will lose the funding and perhaps begin looking for another city in which to play.

— Jason Quick, New York Times, 31 July 2026

Definition of forged

Adjective

Give your appetizer spread a refresh with this no-cook dip made with canned chickpeas, tuna, lemon juice, anchovies, red onion, and parsley.

— Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 23 July 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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Even companies that are a step closer to infrastructure, including Jasper and Tome, remain exposed the moment model providers ship the same feature, proof that sitting lower in the stack rescues nobody when the layer itself can be reproduced.

— Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
But the deeper misconception, Zacharia and other scholars say, is that there exists a single, correct ancient world the film could have reproduced.

— Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of reproduced

Adjective

Grant writing offers a predictable, formulaic path to cash flow compared to the unpredictable grind of B2B sales or direct-to-consumer acquisition.

— AllBusiness, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Instead of the formulaic increases that determine ATP 500 prize money, there is a minimum prize money total required for WTA 500s as determined each year by the WTA, but tournaments can voluntarily exceed those amounts.

— Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 31 July 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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