plagiarism
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Both jobs entailed tedious rewrite work that would have fit into Mr. Posner’s capacious definition of plagiarism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Arday had faced allegations of plagiarism and questions about some of his achievements.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The 41-year-old had faced allegations of plagiarism and questions about some of his achievements.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
But the originality of Arday’s dissertation and his other academic work was also coming under scrutiny, leading to multiple allegations of plagiarism.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Surely the similarities were inadvertent, he suggested, since Jackson was obviously a virtuous man and thus incapable of plagiarism.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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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
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
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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
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The best known relationship between Goethe and Sterne is in connection with the so-called plagiarisms in the appendix to the third volume of the “Wanderjahre.”
From Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer
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