plagiarisms
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pluralof plagiarism.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
plagiarismnounan act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author.
Example Sentences
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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
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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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
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Lauder, William, pretended discovery of plagiarisms of Milton, i.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli