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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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

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

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This month, for example, Saudi Arabia forged a mutual defense pact with Pakistan and Turkey.

— Dina Esfandiary, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2026
For this filmmaking couple, reaching maturity as artists forged in the complex context of a modern colony hinges on acknowledging their limitations and still persevering.

— Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of forged

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However, another email reproduced in the filing states that after about a week, Sotheby’s removed the photograph from its website at the request of the artist’s representative.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
What survived was not the work that could be reproduced by a machine.

— David Woodard, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of reproduced

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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

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

Despite that footprint, the basic cement-making process has changed relatively little since the material was invented in 1824.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
Like Uber , Airbnb had invented a new thing before most people even knew there was a high demand for it.

— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026

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