to forge
- verb
- /fɔrdʒ/
- The social movements of the 1960s and early 1970s helped forge a new politics in Australia.
- forge new relationships
- forge links
- forge identities
He forms and forges a relationship with her.
- He forms and forges a relationship with her.
- Joe is a guy who is leading the pack in forging an entire new world.
- He credits Poe with having essentially forged a new path with the Weird tale.
- They you've forged your own path in many ways.
- Because the department was small, we just kind of forged our own path.
- Yet my parents also forged in me a solution seeking attitude.
- So we're all kind of doing that and the journey forges you.
- And I will loop back to how this can be implemented to sort of forge friendships.
- Now more than ever, the world needs communities of hope and resilience to forge a new way.
- And I want to thank Jane Kaminski for mentioning my book Future right, the forging of a new Republican majority.
- So crisis often helps parties to set aside their differences, and for a while they can work together and forge a new set of agreements.
- So Pamela Mccordick in Machines Who Think has written that AI began with an ancient wish to forge the gods.
- And we ultimately forged a relationship with Franklin Templeton that absorbed this business.
- They're seeking out the hard conversations because they know, they're seeking out the discipline because they know it's only through those actions that they forge their character.
Examples
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And we ultimately forged a relationship with Franklin Templeton that absorbed this business.
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Let these song patterns I've helped to forge become a road to healing!
Fiction book (1992) -
I want to forge my own path as a young person.
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So crisis often helps parties to set aside their differences, and for a while they can work together and forge a new set of agreements.
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Because the department was small, we just kind of forged our own path.
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Yet my parents also forged in me a solution seeking attitude.
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And in order to write with my left hand, I'm going to have to forge new neural pathways.
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Results show that, with curriculum designed to emphasize utility and interest, students forged a high degree of motivation.
Academic text (2012) -
He has often spoken of the deep bonds forged in the services, such as with Corporal Ben McBean.
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The partners worked together to forge a plan that would benefit both companies.
Synonyms
To plan and make something so it looks and works as needed
Invent a plan or idea in your mind
To make up a story or excuse that is not true
To plan or invent something carefully
To create and describe an idea, plan, or theory clearly
To make up an idea, plan, or excuse
To invent a clever plan or excuse
To think about an idea for a long time until it becomes clear
To think very carefully to find a new idea or solution
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Etymology
Forge is used for making plans or ideas because it is like shaping metal: you 'forge' a plan by working and shaping it until it takes form. So to 'forge' an idea means to create it after much effort.