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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Recent Examples of plagiarizing
Rankings influence many disciplines and can mutate values as well as goals, leading academics to such unscholarly behaviors as plagiarizing others’ work, unintentionally manipulating data, or outright falsifying it.
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Big Think, 20 Feb. 2026
Buster attended the same law school starting in 2018, but he was kicked out for low grades and allegedly plagiarizing in the summer of 2019, per The State.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
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
Big Think, 20 Feb. 2026
Buster attended the same law school starting in 2018, but he was kicked out for low grades and allegedly plagiarizing in the summer of 2019, per The State.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plagiarizing
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Hager, who worked at three ARC centers during the span of nearly a decade, said those kinds of groups that ARC billed for were the standard and forging group notes was common.—
Alex Acquisto,
CNN Money,
9 Apr. 2026
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Corona had worked for the elderly couple — identified in court Tuesday as investment banker Richard Schmeelk and his wife Priscilla — since the early 2000s, and was forging their signatures on checks to pay off her credit cards since 2015, according to the feds.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
8 Apr. 2026
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As guests left, we were handed boxes of produce used in the lunch served, including parsnips for reproducing blogger Christina Conte’s unique savory parsnip scones.—
Judy Bart Kancigor,
Oc Register,
9 Apr. 2026
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Despite religious and phenotypic differences, people around the western Mediterranean Sea have been interacting, trading, warring, migrating, and reproducing together for centuries.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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Another 23% wanted to focus on sending people to live in a space station, with 9% wanting to reach another planet and 1% suggesting, somewhat ambitiously, inventing time travel.—
Ariel Edwards-Levy,
CNN Money,
9 Apr. 2026
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Chrysler is often credited with inventing the minivan, or at least mainstreaming it in the United States in the early 1980s.—
Robert Ferris,
CNBC,
7 Apr. 2026
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There was the patriarch, Abbas Khan, prowling through the pages, making real-estate deals, manipulating people.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Apr. 2026
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Full-palm tactile sensing allows the robot to continue manipulating objects even when cameras are obstructed or when precise force control is required, such as in assembly tasks.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Plagiarizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plagiarizing. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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