1. 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.