passages
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These passages can occur months or several years apart.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
Cofnas added that “Many passages are lifted with minimal editing, sometimes retaining copy-editing mistakes from the original source,” and found similar issues in other papers written by Arday.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Cofnas claimed to have put Arday's work through plagiarism detection software which found that "many passages are lifted with minimal editing, sometimes retaining copy-editing mistakes from the original source".
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
In between the book’s linked stories, Ms. Daanje inserts excerpts from those scant archives—Millicent’s letters, the poems and cryptic jottings from Eliza May’s notebooks—as well as passages from various later biographies of the Draydens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
She could remember passages after reading them through just once, could recall the dates of the Magna Carta and the names of the kings of England and every one of the presidents in order.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
