I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a false/forged passport ( also a fake passport informal )
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He used a false passport to enter Kenya.
forge a partnership (= form one )
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He has forged a highly successful partnership with the Dublin singer Frances Black.
forge a relationship (= develop a strong relationship )
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We want to forge closer relationships with our allies.
forge an alliance (= develop a new or strong alliance )
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They won the election by forging an alliance with the Social Democrats.
forged...signature (= made an illegal copy of my name to deceive people )
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Someone’s forged my signature on this letter.
forge/establish links
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Organizers of the project hope that international links will be forged.
forge/strike a compromise formal (= make a compromise )
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They met again Wednesday night to try to forge a compromise.
form/forge a bond (= make a bond )
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Frequently horses form a strong bond with their riders.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
agreement
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Foreign relations Leading Czechoslovak government figures travelled widely to forge new international agreements .
alliance
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Some dictators had been keen to forge triple alliances including foreign firms; other had kept them at arms' length.
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Clinton and Brown overcame early political tensions to forge their strong alliance .
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And, whereas King forged an alliance with the Democrats, Loury is a member of an exotic breed.
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Lowe wrote claiming that Sutton was trying to undermine him and forge an alliance with the Founders.
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We have already seen how pioneers of the ecological approach forged an alliance with specialists from the environmental sciences.
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Whatever their differences, they were able to forge alliances across their somewhat varying but broadly similar positions.
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He added Zeta to his realm in 1186, and forged a strong alliance between his state and the Church.
bond
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The planners hoped that this would forge bonds between residents, and regarded the innovation as an exciting experiment in socialist living.
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Aficionados such as Cohen, known popularly as hams, have been forging bonds across the airwaves for decades.
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Yet he knew from bitter experience that forging such a bond in the late twentieth century entailed experimentation and error.
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The electronic communication has forged bonds among staff and third-grade families that are the strongest at Logan, said Principal Francine Schaffer.
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If the secrecy restrictions are sometimes a nuisance, Beach says, they also can forge a powerful bond .
career
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Many made the best of it and went on to forge successful careers and have families of their own.
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Employees must forge their own career paths, seek out promotions and prove their worth every single day.
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Griffith's breakthrough came almost accidentally as he attempted to forge a career in a new industry about which he knew little.
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A prevailing sense of relief and a chance for everyone to forge a career non-reliant on academic achievement.
friendship
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Hardly enough time to forge a friendship before getting down to business.
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After the bitterness had gone, they forged a new friendship , but the flames of romance were not rekindled.
identity
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He had driven his parents nuts, wildly, almost suicidally trying to forge an identity .
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Some people, unable to forge an acceptable new identity out of the old, fought the changes.
link
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Partnerships - How to forge more formal links with your foreign counterparts for joint ventures.
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These organizations played a decisive role in forging patient links with the outside world.
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It is the verb to bring down that forges the link between the otherwise still nouns and pronoun in the sentence.
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The details of how Strominger and collaborators forged the link are highly mathematical arguments only a physicist could love.
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They at least are aware of the potential of relationships between the different levels and may be forging some co-operative links between them.
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It has refused to explain itself to the mainstream media, or to forge strong links with anyone outside the protest community.
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You are the people who make our work possible and I try to forge more tangible links between us.
links
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Partnerships - How to forge more formal links with your foreign counterparts for joint ventures.
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That group is helping to forge stronger links between mainstream and complementary approaches to promoting health and managing illness.
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The Education Sub-Group has forged links with schools of architecture and practitioners.
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These organizations played a decisive role in forging patient links with the outside world.
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They at least are aware of the potential of relationships between the different levels and may be forging some co-operative links between them.
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It has refused to explain itself to the mainstream media, or to forge strong links with anyone outside the protest community.
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You are the people who make our work possible and I try to forge more tangible links between us.
partnership
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The scheme helps forge partnerships between schools, local communities and youth organisations.
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McKnight describes a neighborhood organization in Chicago that tried to forge a partnership with the local hospitals to improve health care.
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The arts have also forged new partnerships with local authorities, businesses and private patrons.
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It was looking to forge partnerships with the council to try to realise development opportunities.
relationship
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His inner strength is forged in his relationship with his wife, Glenys.
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A final recommendation of the consultants was a radical attempt to forge a closer working relationship between the board and staff members.
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Among the international clients with whom we have forged solid relationships , we number many with specific merger or divestiture needs.
signature
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The Committee also handed out a four-week suspension to Bruce Dowling, the jump jockey, for forging a doctor's signature .
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Last week Dave had to forge his signature on a rent check.
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Rather be caught cheating at cards or forging a friend's signature .
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I forged his signature a couple of times, other times others must have done the same.
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And within weeks she was in control of Lady Illingworth's possessions, forging her signature a total of sixty seven times.
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Scientology circles were shaken by allegations that L. Ron Hubbard was dead and a group of opportunists were forging his signature .
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But Rita Marley was acquitted even though she admitted forging her husband's signature .
■ VERB
try
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You are the people who make our work possible and I try to forge more tangible links between us.
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He had driven his parents nuts, wildly, almost suicidally trying to forge an identity.
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McKnight describes a neighborhood organization in Chicago that tried to forge a partnership with the local hospitals to improve health care.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He entered the country using a forged passport.
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He was carrying a forged passport.
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Marino obtained the drugs by forging his doctor's signature on a prescription.
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The administration will forge new policies on environmental issues in the next few months.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Employees must forge their own career paths, seek out promotions and prove their worth every single day.
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Horak forged ahead on his own but set too fast a pace and died at Elmbridge.
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In the next four years she forged ahead with her husband's socialist programme-and went further.
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It worked, and a bond was forged.
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Some trace their improvement to the unity forged there.
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The heat of the oven forges the parts into a whole and changes it while it kills it.
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They are steadily forging a distinct Kurdish polity.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mason is a convicted forger from Rialto.
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Spearman is now serving a three-year prison sentence for forgery.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A forge for making weapons was found there.
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Because of Joe, however, I stayed at the forge and did my best to work hard.
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For weeks the forges bellowed and Goblins sweated as Grom's fleet took shape.
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I arrived at the forge early on Monday afternoon.
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I decided to spend the night at the forge , which pleased Joe very much.
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In the later poets his forge is often said to be under this or that volcano, and to cause eruptions.
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The blow pipe extends from the bellows through the firebrick wall of the forge to the bottom of the fire.