verb
- to use someone else’s ideas or words without giving proper credit; to present another’s work as one’s own
Examples
- The student was expelled for plagiarizing his research paper.
- She accidentally plagiarized by forgetting to cite her sources.
- The author was accused of plagiarizing passages from other novels.
- Don’t plagiarize – always give credit to your sources.
- He plagiarized the entire article from a website.
- The professor uses software to detect when students plagiarize.