passing off
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“When I’m passing off my job to a new person it’s really not just saying you’ve been promoted,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
In academia, there is no greater sin than passing off another’s work as one’s own.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
The University of Cambridge uses the common definition of plagiarism as "passing off someone else's work as if it were your own without appropriate acknowledgement".
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
I understand that moral intuition and agree that passing off A.I.-generated prose as one’s own breaks the writer-reader contract.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026
Besides being scared out of my wits, I am sick and tired of passing off my cooking for somebody else’s.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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