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plagiarize

[play-juh-rahyz, -jee-uh-rahyz] / ˈpleɪ dʒəˌraɪz, -dʒi əˌraɪz /
VERB
forge
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STRONG




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In a Sunday editorial, the Boston Globe asked, “Did Claudine Gay plagiarize or not? Harvard should be clear.”

From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

OK, so we won’t have take-home essays and we won’t have assignments that students can easily plagiarize using ChatGPT.

From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

"All it does is plagiarize what has been fed into the system and is not capable of writing anything."

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2023

In the quickly evolving area of AI imagery, Adobe has tried to position itself as a responsible industry citizen by offering products that won’t plagiarize or create offensive imagery.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

“We’re not going to plagiarize her. Filmmakers create stories based on true events all the time. It’s a common thing.”

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

Like AI art, writing generated by AI both plagiarizes and takes away from real, living artists and their craft, training and livelihood.

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2023

As it happens with even the best storytellers, Questlove unfortunately — and one hopes unwittingly — at times plagiarizes his own work.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2021

After the claim made by the Raisens, CeCe Peniston wrote on Instagram that “Truth Hurts” plagiarizes her classic ‘90s hit, “Finally,” calling it “a clear example of #copyrightinfringement.”

From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2019

After the claim made by the Raisens, CeCe Peniston wrote on Instagram that “Truth Hurts” plagiarizes her classic ’90s hit, “Finally,” calling it “a clear example of #copyrightinfringement.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2019

In leaving home, Shylock's French plagiarizes the Jew's speech to Jessica, even down to the doubt the Jew has about leaving his house at all.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various

An online smear campaign accused him of having plagiarized parts of his 2015 doctoral thesis.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

When the Japanese company decided to build a British-style roadster, it lovingly plagiarized the ’60s-era Lotus Elan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

"The book was pulled from publication because Hill plagiarized portions of it."

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

“AI plagiarized all my books. It seems unlikely that I’ll be ‘left behind’ if I don’t use it, given that it’s trained on work I did years ago,” wrote “Get Well Soon” author Jennifer Wright.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

If the fictional entry is found on another cartographer’s map, it becomes clear a map has been plagiarized.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

Arday resigned this month amid allegations of plagiarizing his doctoral thesis and fabricating parts of his life story.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

The scandal erupted after some academics and media reports accused Arday, who became Cambridge University's youngest Black professor in 2023, of plagiarizing parts of his doctoral thesis.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

And a Smith College graduation speaker was caught plagiarizing her speech.

From Slate ● May 30, 2025

“If we’d done it in a month, you might’ve felt some of the influences from that time. But after a year, you’re really only plagiarizing yourself.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024

“One of my first CDs. My sister wanted it, so she gave it to me for Christmas. Do you always resort to plagiarizing song lyrics to impress a girl?”

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx




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