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What does plagiarism mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) Copying of another person's ideas, text, or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, especially without permission; plagiarizing.
  2. (uncountable) Text or other work resulting from this act.
  3. (countable) The instance of plagiarism.
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The interesting thing for us was the amount of plagiarism between the news sites, there were several errors that got propagated by cut and paste.
In between the sorts who commit the 'benign' and 'malign' forms of plagiarism are those who do it somewhat by accident or out of sloppiness.
Wikipedia volunteers will also double-check articles to ensure there is no plagiarism or copyright violation.
The person conducting the review was told not to enquire into the question of whether plagiarism had even taken place!
As a matter of fact, one group from last semester is currently resitting a course because of suspected plagiarism.
If this story has a familiar ring about it, it's more than likely a result of shameless Hollywood plagiarism of the two men's lives.

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