How to Use plagiarize in a Sentence

plagiarize

verb
  • He plagiarized a classmate's report.
  • She plagiarized from an article she read on the Internet.
  • Fake sites plagiarize all their content, or have no content at all.
    — Dr. Augustine Fou, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Nothing on our end will tell you whether a student has cheated or plagiarized.
    — Kendra Mayfield, WIRED, 29 Feb. 2000
  • The chances are that a cheap essay will be plagiarized or poorly written.
    — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The chances are that a cheap essay will be plagiarized or poorly written.
    — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Each of the book’s chapters were directly plagiarized from other parts of the web.
    — NBC News, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Given years of plagiarizing, lying about his college class rankings and the like, this seems like a fun lie.
    — Ron Hart, Orange County Register, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Some of the top results were plagiarized from news sources and published under the names of doctors who didn't exist.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The man suspected of torching the studio told police his work had been plagiarized.
    — Trisha Ahmed and Delaney Strunk, CNN, 19 July 2019
  • In the mind of the plagiarized, as often as not, what has been perpetrated is nothing less than an outrage.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Imagine a student or a journalist who won’t promise not to plagiarize.
    — Alex Reisner, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Then he was accused of plagiarizing portions of his master's thesis, which has still not been put back online.
    — Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Teachers have already caught their students using the bot to plagiarize essays.
    — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Some historians say Mozart might have even plagiarized parts of Bologne’s works.
    — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
  • That fact stings even deeper when men can not only age gracefully, but lie, plagiarize, assault women and stay on air.
    — Lara Setrakian, Alaska Dispatch News, 28 Oct. 2017
  • In a case of meta-plagiarism, that paper had been plagiarized from a study about dogs and rats, even though the data was supposed to be about people.
    — Diana Bruk, Esquire, 24 May 2016
  • Around the same time, Raval published an academic paper that was later revealed to be plagiarized.
    — Dan Garisto/undark, Popular Science, 9 Mar. 2020
  • At the risk of plagiarizing myself, that is the lead sentence of my first science column, which appeared on this day 25 years ago.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 2 Nov. 2019
  • This is the First Lady who plagiarized a speech by her nemesis Michelle Obama.
    — Katha Pollitt, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2026
  • At one point, Privat griped that a certain Hong Kong restaurant had plagiarized his concept.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • By year six of the Bill O’Brien era, avoiding self-plagiarizing challenges me like no other task.
    — Stephanie Stradley, Houston Chronicle, 23 July 2019
  • Ed Sheeran was found not guilty of plagiarizing a Marvin Gaye classic.
    — USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
  • The letter alleged that Pouncey plagiarized his dissertation and used state employees on state time to help write it about eight years ago.
    — Mike Cason, AL.com, 20 June 2017
  • Both are easier than plagiarizing Wikipedia ever was!
    — ArsTechnica, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Which works has The Shape of Water been criticized of plagiarizing?
    — Eliza Berman, Time, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Didn't John Fogerty also perform live in court when he was accused of plagiarizing himself?
    — John Hendrickson, Esquire, 4 Mar. 2015
  • Just last month, Frank Ocean accused the company of plagiarizing a font from his Blonde cover.
    — Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 4 June 2017
  • Instead, Playlab allows users to train chatbots to use customized prompts that don’t plagiarize or include bias.
    — Brian Robin, Oc Register, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Gibbs said the collection was a guide to women's health and it had been plagiarized from other similar writings during the same period.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 12 Sep. 2019

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