perforce
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That was a closed-loop cemetery system: the nonnative Americans living here were perforce Spanish and Mexican, and Catholic, and often buried in mission graveyards.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024
Methane is a carbon-based molecule, so many of the ingredients for life are perforce there.
From Scientific American • Jul. 6, 2023
Doing so, perforce, would also crush the rebels’ claim that the national government was powerless to halt slavery’s growth and commence its extinction.
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2020
The task of striding out of the shadows of these estimable achievements would perforce require a playwright and a star with firm beliefs that they have something fresh to say.
From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2018
Kit would not have risen from her place at all, but Rachel, with a meaningful nudge, handed her a candle, and she had perforce to see her suitor to the door.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
Vocabulary lists containing perforce
Othello
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King Lear
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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