as in to reproduce
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 plagiarize
Marathon cannot stop being thrown into fresh drama every few days since its controversial Closed Alpha which led to a string of reports about things going poorly internally, capped off by a revelation that an artist had plagiarized art currently still in the game.
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Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
And one commencement speaker—musician Evelyn Harris at Smith College—relinquished her honorary degree after admitting that parts of her speech were plagiarized.
—Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Smith College did not immediately respond to USA TODAY's request late Wednesday for more information about her speech and what the school says was plagiarized.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 23 May 2025
Baker filed a suit in 2022 alleging that Coates' The Water Dancer plagiarized content from his Shock Exchange: How Inner-City Kids From Brooklyn Predicted the Great Recession and the Pain Ahead.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
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Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
And one commencement speaker—musician Evelyn Harris at Smith College—relinquished her honorary degree after admitting that parts of her speech were plagiarized.
—Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Smith College did not immediately respond to USA TODAY's request late Wednesday for more information about her speech and what the school says was plagiarized.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 23 May 2025
Baker filed a suit in 2022 alleging that Coates' The Water Dancer plagiarized content from his Shock Exchange: How Inner-City Kids From Brooklyn Predicted the Great Recession and the Pain Ahead.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plagiarize
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Although certain species live for over 30 years, bats reproduce slowly – typically one pup per year.—
Anna Tunkova,
CNN Money,
15 Aug. 2025
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So with nothing to stop them, the birds flew to nearby marshlands and began reproducing.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
14 Aug. 2025
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The progressive Move Forward Party, which was forged in the ashes of the 2020 protests, won the most seats in the 2023 general elections on a platform of widespread institutional reforms.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
21 Aug. 2025
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Then Raja took a closer look at the proof of delivery paperwork and realized the papers were forged, according to charging documents.—
Jim Woods,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Aug. 2025
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This guy [William Webb Ellis] invented rugby by picking up the ball and demonstrating a fine disregard for the rules of football.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
8 Aug. 2025
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Advertisement To open each safe deposit box in the vault, the thieves invented a device that hooks into the keyhole and then uses leverage to bend the deadbolt so the door pops open.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
8 Aug. 2025
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This included reporting that the company manipulated vote counts, is owned by a company founded in Venezuela to rig elections for Hugo Chavez, is paid kickbacks to government officials who used its machines in swing states and was involved in voting irregularities in Texas in 2018.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Aug. 2025
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Gerrymandering is when politicians manipulate district lines, dividing or grouping populations, to get an advantage.—
Larry Kaplow,
NPR,
18 Aug. 2025
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Here's a quick guide to griddle-seasoning and care, and a few pieces of gear that'll help you along the way—with some advice cribbed from pros at the best griddle makers, like Blackstone, Weber, and Traeger.—
Matthew Korfhage,
Wired News,
6 Aug. 2025
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Aubrey Beardsley cribbed the oversized phalluses of his erotic drawings from Japanese shunga prints.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
15 July 2025
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“Plagiarize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plagiarize. Accessed 25 Aug. 2025.
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