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Construction companies, gambling impresarios, pharmaceutical bosses and many more corporate entities and individuals had forked over $1.7 billion in bonds since 2019.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2024

By all indications, the majority of the crowd had forked over $20 to hear Leithauser perform his particular brand of vocal acrobatics, and he didn’t let them down.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2017

This was why those looking on had forked over close to $400 a ticket to see Morrison in such an intimate setting. 

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2014

Early in the evening, Eliza had forked onto my plate a tiny cube of raw tuna.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2013

Each had forked teeth extending out of its mouth.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah