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"forgeries" is a correct word in written English.
You can use it to refer to documents or other items that have been copied or imitated fraudulently in order to deceive someone. For example, "The police uncovered a large number of forgeries while investigating the case."
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forgeries
noun
Plural of forgery
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It's that under the prime minister's guidance, MI5, police Special Branch, GCHQ and the NSA were mobilised not only to spy on the NUM on an industrial scale, but to employ agents provocateurs at the highest level of the union, dirty tricks, slush funds, false allegations, forgeries, phoney cash deposits and multiple secretly sponsored legal actions to break the defence of the mining communities.
FROM banknotes to bottles of Bordeaux and Vans shoes to Viagra, good forgeries can be hard to detect even for experts.
Even a set of 19th-century forgeries would be rather intriguing.
Iran replies that some of the allegations make no sense, that some of the documents are forgeries and that the high-explosive tests and other activities listed by the agency were done to aid civilian industry or else develop conventional weapons.
He is now accused of "complicity in false accusation, complicity in the use of forgeries, receipt of stolen goods, and breach of trust".Flanked by his entire family, Mr de Villepin declared this week, before entering the court (coincidentally the same one from which Marie-Antoinette was sent to the guillotine in 1793), that he would emerge "free and cleared" at the end of the trial.
Marubeni has claimed that contracts signed and stamped by a Marubeni director were found to be forgeries and the manager whom Lehman's bankers met in Marubeni's offices was an impostor.
The PCGG was unable to say immediately whether any or all of the 15 works seized might be authentic or duplicates, or forgeries.
"GIVEN that this was a very sophisticated operation in which high-quality forgeries were made, the Government judges it highly likely that the forgeries were made by a state intelligence service".
Are the tapes genuine or forgeries or doctored versions of real conversations?
Now that, according to the International Atomic Energy Authority, some of the documents about Iraq's dealings with Niger have turned out to be forgeries, the White House's spokesman, Ari Fleischer, says, "knowing all that we know now, the reference to Iraq's attempt to acquire uranium from Africa should not have been included in the state-of-the-union speech".
His colleagues are now using other wavelengths, including ultraviolet, to analyse more of van Gogh's brushwork.Interest has been shown in using image analysis to help find forgeries of other artists.
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