forging
Americannoun
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forgings
plural
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an act or instance of forging.
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something forged; a piece of forged work in metal.
noun
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the process of producing a metal component by hammering
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the act of a forger
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a metal component produced by this process
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the collision of a horse's hind shoe and fore shoe
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Etymology
Origin of forging
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English; forge 1 + -ing 1
Vocabulary lists containing forging
Example Sentences
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They are accused of forging documents to ship roughly 50 servers made by Super Micro to China.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
He received a hero’s welcome in Hostage Square in Tel Aviv after forging a tenuous Gaza ceasefire last October, visibly moved as he was drowned out by appreciative shouts of “Thank you, Witkoff!”
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
“You start making your own luck, you start forging your own connections and making it happen.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
The U.S. had cycled through both homegrown and foreign managers without ever truly forging a distinct identity for how they played the game.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
“I told my parents I was unhappy with my life and was forging ahead. We never talked about it much after that.”
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
But delivering 800 planes at least by 2025 will require a significant ramp-up by castings and forgings suppliers, who are facing labor constraints.
From Reuters ● Nov. 3, 2022
A few miles away, Howmet, where my father worked next, made airfoils, rings, disks, forgings and other parts for airplanes, including the infamous F-35 fighter jet.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2022
The sectors are: casting and forgings, missiles and munitions, energy storage and batteries, strategic and critical materials and microelectronics.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
Like all Miura forgings, the K-Grind 2.0 wedge is forged at headquarters in Himeji, Japan, using the company’s 14-step forging process.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 11, 2019
From this point of view it is clear that given say a thousand forgings, ordered all alike, the cost of even expensive dies distributed over the whole becomes only an infinitesimal amount per forging.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
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