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PLAGIARIZE
plagiarize, plagiarise, lift
(verb) take without referencing from someone else’s writing or speech; of intellectual property
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
plagiarize (third-person singular simple present plagiarizes, present participle plagiarizing, simple past and past participle plagiarized)
(ambitransitive) To use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing/speech.
Source: Wiktionary
Pla"gia*rize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plagiarized; p. pr. & vb. n. Plagiarizing.]
Definition: To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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OBLIQUE
(adjective) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; “the oblique rays of the winter sun”; “acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles”; “the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base”
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