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plagiarism

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


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Arday, who denied plagiarism, told associates that he felt he could no longer leave his house.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Arday, who became Cambridge's youngest ever black professor in 2023, was found dead Friday aged 41, following multiple plagiarism accusations.

From Barron's Aug. 17, 2026

He had resigned as a Cambridge professor of sociology of education on August 5 after allegations of plagiarism and questions about some of his achievements.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

Lord Woolley said issues of plagiarism were constant in academia and that a number of individuals, who had been accused of plagiarism had not been subjected to the attention Arday had received.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

The two promptly accused each other of plagiarism, and the English mathematical community, which backed Newton, pulled away from the Continental mathematicians, who supported Leibniz.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

Now--after New York Times reporter Jayson Blair was caught in a string of plagiarisms and fabrications, ultimately leading to a staff revolt and the resignation of Times executive editor Howell Raines--it seems prescient.

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

What is Lady Gethin's, or what is not hers, in this miscellany of plagiarisms, it is not material to examine.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli




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