plagiarizing

verb

present participle of plagiarize
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 The writers of these biblical tales weren’t plagiarizing Homer, MacDonald says. — John Blake, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026 Both are easier than plagiarizing Wikipedia ever was! — ArsTechnica, 13 Apr. 2026 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. — 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
  1. forging
  2. reproducing
  3. cribbing
  4. inventing
  5. manipulating
Verb
  • Bosa seems committed to forging ahead in another ACL comeback, having rebounded well in 2021 with a reconstructed left knee and captured NFL Defensive Player of the Year honors in 2022.
    — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • With debts racking up, Ina loses the family’s bus company, forcing her to shift between jobs, from construction to becoming a bar entertainer, therefore forging an identity through toil.
    — Lé Baltar, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of forging
Verb
  • While many inland striper fisheries are managed via annual stocking of fingerlings, Texoma stands out because its stripers are reproducing naturally.
    — Ken Perrotte, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The sargassum that began reproducing in the region earlier than usual this year stems from a record 40 million metric tons reported last year.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026
Definition of reproducing
Verb
  • Labels are cut off the clothing, not merely to deter competitors from cribbing their inventory, but to ensure the focus remains on the wondrously eclectic pieces, and not on who might have designed them.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 31 July 2026
  • Although his personal favorite interpretation is Craig’s, the actor wanted to focus on the philosophical pillars of the character, rather than cribbing from anyone else’s work.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2026
Definition of cribbing
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  • Whether inventing the Bong-a-Tron or freeing themselves after hours trapped inside a Party City parking lot, these misadventures almost always hinge on weed.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2026
  • However, blaming regional choice programs for district deficits or inventing narratives about wealthy RESCs will not hire a teacher, fix a roof, or improve a reading score.
    — Leonard Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of inventing
Verb
  • Sandoval’s ex, Dillon Maquindang, stood at a podium Thursday morning and decried the defendant for cheating on them, manipulating them and taking out his failures on Maquindang’s family.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2026
  • In recent years, totalizing ideologies such as communism, fascism, and Islamism have found dedicated audiences on social media, and the proliferation of demagogues manipulating people for malign ends is an ever-present worry.
    — James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of manipulating

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