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
The security concerns are just the latest problem for Perplexity, as the company has come under fire from Forbes and other media outlets for allegedly plagiarizing their reporting and redistributing it across multiple platforms.
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Chris Dobstaff, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Look just to the recent past at their plagiarizing President, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States States [sic] Congress.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
The prepared text of McCarthy’s speech drew on those same themes, including lines plagiarized from then-Congressman (and Senate candidate) Richard Nixon.
—Made By History, TIME, 9 Feb. 2025
However, the service has at times become controversial, with some critics raising concerns that ChatGPT and similar programs fuel online misinformation and enable students to plagiarize.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2025
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Chris Dobstaff, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Look just to the recent past at their plagiarizing President, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States States [sic] Congress.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
The prepared text of McCarthy’s speech drew on those same themes, including lines plagiarized from then-Congressman (and Senate candidate) Richard Nixon.
—Made By History, TIME, 9 Feb. 2025
However, the service has at times become controversial, with some critics raising concerns that ChatGPT and similar programs fuel online misinformation and enable students to plagiarize.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plagiarize
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Zinnias are annual flowers—their life goal is to reproduce.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
7 June 2025
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However, if there are errors in the data or methods of the original study, being able to reproduce its results may only ensure consistency but not scientific rigor.—
H. Christopher Frey,
The Conversation,
5 June 2025
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That perspective, forged through experience and gratitude, keeps him grounded when the stakes feel highest.—
Sindiswa Mabunda,
Forbes.com,
9 June 2025
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Also, Leos are known to forge their path — closely resembling Mikey‘s use of One-Eyed Willy’s map to search for the Liberator’s treasure.—
Lisa Stardust,
People.com,
7 June 2025
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In 1948, photography and instant gratification converged when Edwin H. Land invented the first Polaroid camera.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
30 May 2025
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The banjo itself was invented by our ancestors to bring us together as a spiritual community, stretching from those long gone, all the way to those who haven’t been born yet.—
Essence,
Essence,
29 May 2025
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This may surprise the more than 1 million Californians who received $21.65 apiece from the state in mid-May after a settlement reached by state Attorney General Rob Bonta with three gasoline trading firms that allegedly manipulated gas prices in 2016 during another refinery outage.—
Thomas Elias,
Mercury News,
6 June 2025
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Deepfakes are manipulated images, audio recordings, or videos of real people that have been altered with artificial intelligence to misrepresent someone as saying or doing something that the person did not actually say or do.—
Alain Sherter,
CBS News,
6 June 2025
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Wayne’s World Wayne says that line is cribbed from a Birdman bar on an old Cash Money track.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2025
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Tommy pulls up to the behemoth and explains the petro facts of life in a speech that could have been cribbed from the American Petroleum Institute’s website.—
Stephen Rodrick,
Rolling Stone,
9 Mar. 2025
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“Plagiarize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plagiarize. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.
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