plagiarizing

present participle of plagiarize

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Recent Examples of plagiarizing By their thinking, the AI company is a free-rider plagiarizing their movies and TV shows. Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025 After the political satirist used part of his Sunday show to blast Cain's recent decision to join the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the actor hit back, accusing the comedian of plagiarizing his jokes. Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025 Here's what happens to Indiana University students when they are caught plagiarizing. Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 12 Aug. 2025 Mexican authorities accused sportswear company Adidas of plagiarizing artisans in southern Mexico, alleging that a new sandal design is strikingly similar to the traditional Indigenous footwear known as huaraches. Jeremy Mikula, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025
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Verb
  • Told in two timelines, Letters to Kafka explores her role as an active resistance fighter in Czechoslovakia after the Nazis annexed the country in 1938, and her life in Vienna from 1918 to 1925, forging her own path separate from her husband, and Kafka.
    Christine Estima September 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Her son Cedric Von Ferdinand, who was her caretaker, has since been slapped with dozens of fraud charges for allegedly assigning himself her power of attorney and forging signatures, among other offenses, according to a criminal complaint obtained by PEOPLE.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • By reproducing the tachocline, scientists now have a foundation for more reliable forecasts of solar activity.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Preliminary data seemed to show that the Iberian harvester ants, or Messor ibericus, were creating hybrid worker ants by reproducing with another species of harvester ant called Messor structor in the Mediterranean region.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Although few people know her name, Yeager had a huge influence on 20th century pop culture — popularizing the bikini, helping discover Bettie Page, shaping the image of Playboy and inventing the selfie.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In many ways, today’s LLMs are far too flexible—inventing information or taking unexpected shortcuts.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Former Formula One driver David Coulthard has accused the McLaren Racing F1 team of manipulating the Italian Grand Prix race results by issuing team orders during the race.
    Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The hacker’s malware focuses on stealing cryptocurrency by hijacking and manipulating the user's browser.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025

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