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plagiarism

noun

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Presenting another person's words, ideas, or work as one's own without proper acknowledgment.

The instructor used a fictional passage to explain how missing attribution can become plagiarism.

Dictionary practice example.

Plagiarism occurs in a fictional design review when a columnist publishes another writer's original analysis as his own without acknowledging the source.

From A Review and Its Corrections.

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