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perforce

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


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Kirsten Menger-Anderson’s new book, “The Expert of Subtle Revisions,” does just that, while exploring the way history is perforce affected by how it is told and who does the telling.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 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

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




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