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The word plagiarism comes from a Latin word meaning what?

plagiarism

[play-juh-riz-uhm, -jee-uh-riz-] / ˈpleɪ dʒəˌrɪz əm, -dʒi əˌrɪz- /


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But the suspicions about him were further fed when evidence emerged of plagiarism in a newspaper column and a short story he wrote before the publication of his novel.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Gay resigned in early 2024 after a six-month tenure marred by criticism of her response to campus antisemitism and plagiarism allegations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

The latest detectors no longer compare text with text, to see if there has been plagiarism.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The 41-year-old had faced allegations of plagiarism and questions about some of his achievements.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Nowadays, we would call this plagiarism, but that would be entirely to miss the point.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

That a lot of these supposed plagiarisms were things in speeches, or I guess also in books.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2013

I doubt that a single person could track down all the plagiarisms in QR Markham's spy novel Assassin of Secrets; but a group certainly could and did, and with remarkable speed.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2012

Mrs. Sheridan, who has read the book, finds it a display of sentimentality, abounding in super-adjectives, containing many plagiarisms, "the outpourings of a gushing school girl."

From Time Magazine Archive

Dickens' novels are hardly less theatrical, as his contemporaries realized to their quick profit: several stage plagiarisms of Nicholas Nickleby were on the London boards before the novel's serial publication was complete.

From Time Magazine Archive

Suspicious as he shows himself of possible plagiarisms by others, the charge cannot be retorted against himself.

From Schopenhauer by Thomas Whittaker




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