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The phrase "a forgery or a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the nature of an object or document, particularly in legal or artistic contexts, where one is distinguishing between authenticity and imitation.
Example: "The painting was determined to be a forgery or a poorly executed replica of the original."
Alternatives: "a counterfeit or a" or "an imitation or a".
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Version 3.0 warns you if it suspects a web page is a forgery or a phishing site and continues to block drive-by installations of malware.
But what I loved was that while Lovejoy wasn't that smart, he could always spot a forgery or a fake from the real thing and that while his friend Tinker, played by Dudley Sutton, was the real brains behind things, Lovejoy was the face of business.
For the expert to prove the painting is a real Monet, he'll have to pay a fortune for X-rays, carbon dating and neutron analysis, and then, a week later, another expert will say the work was really a forgery or a copy.
You want to be in a work of art, not a forgery or a plagiarism.
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Whether this document is a forgery or an authentic source is a subject of scholarly debate.
She had no idea that the identity was a forgery, or that the real John Barker had died as a boy.
But what would I have lost, really, if I'd been taken in by a forgery or two?
As you can clearly see here, hers was a forgery or, more likely, a home-made homage.
The Supreme casts doubt even on the presumption that the declaration is indeed a forgery, or rather suggests that the forgery could itself be forged: "Suppose that I myself am an author of pasquinades".
It has not survived, and is variously considered authentic, or the tribute of a contemporaneous imitator, or a later forgery; or by some altogether mythical, despite a mid‑19c photograph.
Indeed, the document may ultimately prove to be an outright forgery or fraud, as some scholars are already suggesting.
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