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Jason Arday’s academic rise and fall set off a debate about whether he was a fantasist and plagiarist or victim of a racial witch hunt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
She emailed two editors at The Boston Globe — wouldn’t they like to know if the author of this summer’s citywide common-reads short story was a plagiarist?
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
He was far from being a plagiarist, but he was exceptionally fluent in making use of the many languages of design.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2020
Long viewed by newsrooms as a serial plagiarist that scrapes news websites for stories to serve up to Google Search users, Google is changing its profile in the news business.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2020
In this respect, Leibniz was indeed a plagiarist.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
