How do anti-plagiarism detectors and programs work to find exact wordings from other sources and determine that they aren’t just coincidence?
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It is VERY rare for a single sentence to be repeated by random chance. The odds of an entire paragraph or page being copied are zero.
To give you some context. I’ve written several 100,000 word books. Often I’ll think to myself “Oh, I need to edit this section or that section” and I’ll use the search feature. If I can remember one or two words from the section I want to find then there are never more than 3 hits and usually its just 1. If you want you can test it out with an online bible. If you remember any few word you can usually immediately find the bible verse you were thinking of.
plagiarism software shouldn’t (and almost never is) used to try and find one sentence in a multi-thousand word essay. It looks for patterns of behavior where big blocks of text have been taken from a handful of sources. And that just never happens honestly.
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