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Attribution
01
assigning to a cause or source
02
assigning some quality or character to a person or thing
Example
The politician faced public backlash for plagiarizing speeches from other political figures without attribution.
Scholars have debated whether Shakespeare's attribution contained errant credit for works not actually authored by him.
Plagiarism in academic writing is essentially an attempt to knock off someone else's ideas without proper attribution.
It's important to give attribution when quoting someone else's work.
