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perforce

[per-fawrs, -fohrs] / pərˈfɔrs, -ˈfoʊrs /


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Even people’s pets were bought up, or perforce left behind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025

Methane is a carbon-based molecule, so many of the ingredients for life are perforce there.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 6, 2023

What David Doniger, a climate expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council, calls a “one-two punch of irrefutable science and irrefutable experience” has clearly raised public awareness and, perforce, the political temperature.

From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2019

If GE gets a good deal, the buyers — perforce — get a bad one.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2017

To advocate placing such information in the public record, Strauss asserted, was perforce an act of disloyalty.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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