as in forging
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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There has been quite a lot of progress lately in inventing brain-computer interfaces (BCI), also known as brain-machine interfaces (BMI).—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025 -
All sixth graders from all nine schools in the Encinitas Union School District get to spend a week at the district’s Farm Lab taking part in Salad Wars, inventing their own organic salad dressing and competing against their classmates for the honor of The Golden Fork.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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Just as manipulating actuality is the soul of cinema, playing with subjectivity is the soul of AI as an artistic medium.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
8 Apr. 2025
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Biohacking sales isn’t about manipulating people.—
Scott Hutcheson,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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