forgeries

noun

plural of forgery
as in counterfeits
an imitation that is passed off as genuine that is a cheap forgery, not an authentic Ming Dynasty vase

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Recent Examples of forgeries The booming market for South Asian art has been flooded with forgeries. — News Desk, Artforum, 20 Aug. 2026 South Asia’s modern art market has boomed, surpassing $100 million in auction sales in 2025, but a surge in forgeries threatens its growth, the FT wrote. — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 19 Aug. 2026 And then, of course, there were the forgeries, which turned out to be a field day for dueling art historians. — Air Mail, 15 Aug. 2026 Reports of guns, faked voter registration documents, gift card payments for forgeries. — Philip Elliott, Time, 17 July 2026 Detectives later ruled that the note and paperwork were likely forgeries. — Eleanor Jacobs, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026 Federal law strictly prohibits the publication of nonconsensual intimate imagery, including digital forgeries, and most states have passed criminal laws. — Bhakti Mirchandani, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026 His work was the subject of many forgeries, but Naranjo showed them grace. — Sarah Moreno may 22, Miami Herald, 22 May 2026 One of New York’s oldest and most esteemed commercial galleries, Knoedler closed down in 2011 amid allegations of profiting from forgeries of paintings by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and others. — ABC News, 29 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for forgeries
  1. counterfeits
  2. hoaxes
  3. reproductions
  4. copies
Noun
  • In cases Durbhakula has seen, cychlorphine is often combined with other substances, even in counterfeits of Xanax and OxyContin, making the effects more powerful and dangerous.
    — Diana Anos, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Vestiaire Collective has always taken a multi-step approach to authenticating luxury goods to prevent counterfeits and fraud.
    — Sophie Lou Wilson, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of counterfeits
Noun
  • Matthew Unglesbee, a 36-year-old resident of Quincy in southwestern Illinois, was charged with violations related to false information and hoaxes and mailing threatening communications.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Schools banned its use, and journalists were shamed for credulously repeating its hoaxes.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of hoaxes
Noun
  • On the editorial side, this includes the licenses for reproductions in books like exhibition catalogs, scholarly tomes, and even the covers of novels, as well as publications, for news coverage and criticism for exhibitions as well as general use.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
  • But De Kooning would apply fragments of the reproductions to new compositions, often in different orientations.
    — Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of reproductions
Noun
  • His breakout comedic dark fantasy comic series Barbaric has sold more than one million copies and is currently in development as a series at Netflix.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2026
  • When a server migration wipes out Sally’s treasured videos of him — and her phone containing backup copies accidentally shatters — the only hope is finding the original tapes.
    — Rachel LaBonte, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of copies

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“Forgeries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forgeries. Accessed 2 Nov. 2026.

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