plagiarism

In September 1987, a young senator had ended his presidential campaign owing to a plagiarism scandal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Arday, 41, was found dead at his home in London on 14 August, the week after resigning from his position as professor of sociology of education amid intense scrutiny over allegations of plagiarism.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

An inquest has begun into the death of Jason Arday, the former University of Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

In the ancient world, plagiarism was viewed quite negatively: The word “plagiarism” actually means “kidnapper” in Latin, and the Roman poet Horace described literary theft like a crow making itself beautiful with stolen feathers.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

She denounced it as a “hodgepodge of plagiarism pulled from here, a bit from there, the whole misinterpreted and sensationalized to give color to the red-flag word SPIES.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

That a lot of these supposed plagiarisms were things in speeches, or I guess also in books.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2013

I doubt that a single person could track down all the plagiarisms in QR Markham's spy novel Assassin of Secrets; but a group certainly could and did, and with remarkable speed.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2012

Dickens' novels are hardly less theatrical, as his contemporaries realized to their quick profit: several stage plagiarisms of Nicholas Nickleby were on the London boards before the novel's serial publication was complete.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Sheridan, who has read the book, finds it a display of sentimentality, abounding in super-adjectives, containing many plagiarisms, "the outpourings of a gushing school girl."

From Time Magazine Archive

What is Lady Gethin's, or what is not hers, in this miscellany of plagiarisms, it is not material to examine.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli