PLAGIARISM in a Sentence

Learn PLAGIARISM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for PLAGIARISM, such as:

1. The teacher could recognize what the students plagiarize from others in their essays.
2. When an author sells the thoughts of another man for his own, the larceny is called plagiarism.
3. The editor recognized the plagiarism and rebuked the culprit who had presented the manuscript as original.

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 Meanings and Examples of PLAGIARISM
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plagiarism
 n.  theft of another's ideas or writings passed off as original
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Example Sentence:
1  When an author sells the thoughts of another man for his own, the larceny is called plagiarism.
2  The editor recognized the plagiarism and rebuked the culprit who had presented the manuscript as original.
3  Scholars have long argued about the inspiration for Shakespeare's canon; now a piece of software, used for detecting plagiarism among university students, may have the answer.
4  The teacher could recognize what the students plagiarize from others in their essays.