Every example I saw of Gay’s plagiarism actually directly cited the work she pulled from, she just didn’t put quotations around them. There was no way you’d read the passages and not understand where the ideas came from, you’d just have thought Gay rephrased them, which she didn’t.

Maybe there were other more egregious examples I didn’t see, but that seems like an editing or style error more than what I’d consider plagiarism.

(Obviously students, who are being assessed directly on the writing itself, have very rigid requirements they need to meet)