plagiarize
verb (used with object)
to take and use by plagiarism.
was plagiarizing
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past progressiveof plagiarize.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“If we had known Žižek was plagiarizing, we would have certainly asked him to remove the illegal passages.”
From Newsweek
And just then, to make matters still more gloomy, he learned that some rascally linen-draper in London was plagiarizing the great invention he had brought forth in such sore and protracted travail.
From Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science by J. Hamilton Fyfe
There he was plagiarizing my ideas, but I guess I was willing to sign them over to him in full if he got us the right pail of water for that time-bomb.
From The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
