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forgery

noun as in counterfeiting; counterfeit item

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Accounts of online auctions for forgeries of these cards suggest that they may often be an unreliable indicator of vaccine status.

If it is the first case of its kind nationally, it would represent a watershed moment in the coming fight against the forgeries that security experts have long warned about.

TikTok’s policy is to remove “digital forgeries” that mislead and cause harm to the subject of the video or society, such as inaccurate health information.

Later this year, as countries begin to introduce vaccination “passports”—documents meant to enable people to travel or return to work more easily once they have been immunized—Stock expects a rise in forgeries seeking to game this system.

From Time

In 2018, his Dutch bank, De Volksbank, accused him of committing forgery, by stating on a bank form that he had “no other tax residence” outside the Netherlands.

From Time

But the true forgery—like the work of Han van Meegeren, the Dutch World War 2-era forger of Vermeer—is actually very rare.

In late June, John Re was arrested on charges of engaging in an eBay forgery scheme that earned him $1.9 million.

But Colette sees a more serious problem with forgery, beyond the distorting effect forgery has on the art market.

On the other hand, if the text is a forgery, then it is a better forgery than previously thought.

In some ways GJW is actually more interesting if it is a modern forgery.

But it was strongly rumoured that there had been foul play, peculation, even forgery.

The unauthorized writing out and sending of a telegram in another person's name is a forgery.

Once Harkaway is removed from your path, you may sleep in peace, for he alone can now punish you for forgery.

He had an uneasy feeling that the Indian's challenge was genuine enough, but he still hoped to have it pronounced a forgery.

Forgery is singularly easy in a land where the seal is the sole signature, and any seal-cutter can copy it from an impression.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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