plagiarism
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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
The latest detectors no longer compare text with text, to see if there has been plagiarism.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
In September 1987, a young senator had ended his presidential campaign owing to a plagiarism scandal.
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
In a sense this process, given the fancy title ‘neo-classicism’ by music historians, was at times nothing more elaborate than plagiarism.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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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
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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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
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A new play now appeared which was principally written by assistants, and which was also defaced by plagiarisms.
From Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business by David W. Bartlett
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