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Soon after Arday was hired at Cambridge, a retired British professor called David Harris read Arday’s work and flagged a series of apparent errors, which appeared to include passages taken from other works without citation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Cofnas claimed to have put Arday's work through plagiarism detection software which found that "many passages are lifted with minimal editing, sometimes retaining copy-editing mistakes from the original source".
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Defenders of the books said the passages were taken out of context in works that needed to be considered in their entirety.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
"After sunset is a lot more comfortable," Victor Li, 52, told AFP as he toured the arena and the underground passages where animals and gladiators were once held.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
For the first time in nearly three weeks, new orders came in: “Assume combat readiness and form a line west of the Caicos and Turks Island passages in the Caribbean Sea.”
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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