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plagiarism

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


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

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Today, accusations of plagiarism have become a potent way to undermine someone’s credibility.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

In Europe, groups of scholars have banded together to investigate allegations of plagiarism.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

Arday denied the plagiarism allegations, resigned from his professorship at Cambridge, and was found dead last week.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 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

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

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

Of course Handel’s plagiarisms would have damaged his reputation if contemporaries had known of them.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various




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