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  • noun Plural form of forger.

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Examples

  • One of the forgers was a close friend of a neoconservative Washington think-tank scholar who in turn had a long-established relation with the Italian military intelligence service, SISMI.

    New Rumor about the Niger Yellowcake Forgeries: Steve Sailer 2005

  • One of the forgers was a close friend of a neoconservative Washington think-tank scholar who in turn had a long-established relation with the Italian military intelligence service, SISMI.

    Archive 2005-05-01 Steve Sailer 2005

  • "dream sharing" aspect of the technology, there are the "forgers" who enter your consciousness disguised as someone else, there are the "projections" (akin to white blood cells) that your own mind uses to protect you from intruders.

    Film.com Movie Blog 2010

  • Prized in the marketplace, Van Gogh's works have occasionally inspired the efforts of art forgers, as cultural anthropologist Henk Tromp relates in 'A Real Van Gogh' 2010, which recounts the riveting case of Dr. Otto Wacker, a Berlin dealer who marketed dozens of fake Van Goghs during the 1920s.

    A Stranger to Himself Jonathan Lopez 2011

  • In the trade, document forgers are called “artists.”

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • Foundations might fear litigation, or risk tipping off forgers on what their evaluators are looking for, if they were more forthcoming in their deliberations.

    Behind the Veil: Questions About Art Authentication James Panero 2011

  • If you have no faith in the written word why appeal to the written word of forgers who did not know Christ and did not know the Apostles but got their theology out of their heads?

    Blind Faith? 2009

  • In the trade, document forgers are called “artists.”

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • Cocteau, like his friend and contemporary Pablo Picasso, has long been a favourite with forgers.

    Jean Cocteau: France in uproar over museum 'fakes' 2011

  • Bibliomania has gripped statesmen — Thomas Jefferson's collection was the foundation of the Library of Congress — as well as thieves, forgers and pranksters, whose dark deeds add spice to "A Gentle Madness."

    Extreme Book-Collecting Allison Hoover Bartlett 2010

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