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plagiarize

Meaning

To present the work or ideas of another person as one's own without giving proper attribution.

Examples by difficulty

Basic: Simple, everyday vocabulary — the easiest to read.

Sarah felt a cold dread wash over her. She'd copied her friend's essay word for word. To present someone else's ideas as your own without credit felt like a deep betrayal. She knew she shouldn't plagiarize.

Elara’s heart sank. She’d spent weeks perfecting her theory on subterranean fungi communication, only to see her exact wording in Finn’s report. He had presented her hard work as his own, a terrible thing to do.

Sarah felt sick. Her whole presentation, the one she’d worked on for weeks, was gone. Now, looking at Mark’s identical slides, she understood. He’d taken her research, her words, and tried to plagiarize her effort. It was a betrayal that stole her voice.

Sarah looked at her friend's paper, her stomach dropping. Her friend had copied whole sentences, claiming them as her own. It felt wrong. To take someone else's work and pretend it was yours, without ever saying where it came from, that's to plagiarize.

My friend Barry is a genius at coming up with silly jokes, but he's terrible at remembering where they came from. He'll tell me a joke I told him last week and act like it's his own brilliant idea. It's like he doesn't realize he's basically trying to present my work as his own without giving me credit.

Normal: Standard, everyday language.

Sarah felt a cold dread creep in when she realized she'd accidentally used whole sentences from a website in her paper. She hadn't meant to plagiarize, but presenting someone else's words as her own without credit felt like a terrible lie.

The professor's face hardened. He held up the essay, his voice tight with disappointment. "This is unacceptable. To plagiarize someone else's research, their hard work, and claim it as your own without crediting them... it's a betrayal of trust."

Her professor’s face fell as he pointed to the identical schematic. "This isn't just similar," he said, his voice tight, "you took entire sections from the archived research project. To plagiarize like this, presenting another’s work as your own without credit, is a serious breach of trust."

Barnaby, bless his cotton socks, tried to impress his literature teacher by submitting a dazzling essay. The only problem? He’d accidentally copy-pasted half of it from a squirrel's diary. He didn't realize he was trying to present the work or ideas of another person as one's own without giving proper attribution. The squirrels were not amused.

She stared at the assignment, the deadline looming. A quick search online offered perfect sentences, but copying them felt wrong. To plagiarize meant taking someone else's thoughts and claiming them as her own. The thought made her stomach clench with guilt.

Advanced: Richer vocabulary that stretches an upper-level reader.

Sarah felt a chill when she realized she'd accidentally submitted a report with paragraphs lifted directly from a published article. To plagiarize like that, presenting someone else's work as your own without credit, was a serious academic offense and deeply dishonest.

The apprentice artisan stared at the intricate filigree on the master's latest commission. A terrible thought bloomed: to subtly copy those patterns for his own portfolio. He knew that to present the work or ideas of another person as one's own without giving proper attribution was wrong.

Marcus stared at the assignment, a cold dread creeping in. He had spent weeks crafting his proposal for the advanced fungal cultivation project. Now, a classmate's identical abstract sat on his screen, verbatim. He knew he couldn't plagiarize those meticulous observations; that felt like stealing not just words, but months of his own dedicated effort.

My friend Bartholomew, a notorious mimic, once presented a Shakespearean sonnet as his own love poem. When confronted, he stammered that it was merely an "homage" to the Bard. Such attempts to present another's eloquent pronouncements as your own without attribution are, in essence, to plagiarize. Bartholomew's romantic endeavors, sadly, did not bloom.

She felt a sickening lurch as her professor announced the discovery. All her diligent research, every carefully chosen phrase, had been lifted from another student's paper. To plagiarize, to present someone else's hard work as her own without credit, was a betrayal she couldn't undo.

Challenging: Rare, high-register vocabulary for serious word lovers.

Professor Albright was incensed. He discovered a student had submitted an entire essay that was a verbatim copy of an article found online. To plagiarize, especially when a student presents another's intellectual property as their own without acknowledgment, is a grave academic transgression, and this breach would not be tolerated.

Professor Thorne grimly surveyed the submitted manuscripts, a palpable despair settling in. He recognized entire passages, the nuanced arguments of Dr. Aris, meticulously reproduced without a single citation. It was a profound betrayal, this intent to plagiarize, to steal the intellectual scaffolding Dr. Aris had painstakingly erected.

Professor Thorne's disappointment was palpable. Elara, a promising xenobotanist, had meticulously compiled her research on sentient fungal networks. Yet, on the final submission, Thorne recognized extensive passages verbatim from a obscure twenty-year-old monograph. To plagiarize meant presenting another's profound discoveries as her own original thought, a betrayal of academic integrity that shattered her nascent career.

Barnaby, a rather indolent bard, attempted to pen a sonnet about a particularly obstreperous badger. However, after a particularly egregious bout of writer's block, he decided to subtly *plagiarize* the entire oeuvre of a lesser-known medieval poet, hoping no one would ascertain his egregious appropriation of another's profound imaginings.

She felt a gnawing dread; her professor had vehemently cautioned against presenting another's research as her own, especially after that incident where a student tried to plagiarize a classmate's entire thesis. It felt like a betrayal, a profound ethical transgression, to simply copy someone else's diligent efforts and claim them as your own.

Difficulty

Advanced — Less frequent words that stretch an upper-level vocabulary.

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