must needs
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Emilia in “Othello”: I must needs report the truth.
From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2020
“There is no method in his madness; and we must needs pronounce the chief feature of the volume a perfect failure, and the work itself inartistic.”
From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019
Matthew 18:7: “Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!”
From Time • Jan. 19, 2017
Suffice it to say that I keep my clothing meticulously clean and in good repair, where it touches my skin and where it must needs encounter the elements.
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2014
And so, in consequence, there are infinite habitable worlds; what hinders? ... these and suchlike insolent and bold attempts, prodigious paradoxes, inferences must needs follow, if it once be granted which ...
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
