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In 2013, multiple media outlets accused Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul of plagiarizing in his speeches, newspaper column and his 2012 book from a variety of sources, including Wikipedia.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
A Prudie reader has some wise words for how to navigate that situation—and readers of the column weigh in on a variety of other dilemmas, too.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
As this column was being written on Aug. 19, for example, the SWR slipped from 5.0% to 4.9%.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Bill Plaschke should have consulted with his colleague Laurence Darmiento before writing his ill-informed column on the sale of the Lakers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Nico di Angelo stood in the shadow of the nearest column.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
The writer Ross Barkan, whose forthcoming book about Zohran Mamdani was suspended following accusations of plagiarism in his columns, apologized for not citing others’ work “as aggressively as I should have.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
This lava flowed and then cooled, contracted and cracked, creating around eight-sided basalt columns.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The equivalent of 10,000 coins have been painstakingly removed from the Giant's Causeway following years of visitors jamming them between the columns.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
So there are two columns of tickers — the fund’s ticker and the U.S. ticker, which might be the same.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Half heaven was pure and stainless: the clouds, now trooping before the wind, which had shifted to the west, were filing off eastward in long, silvered columns.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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