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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

Well, everyone, but space perforce places limits on encomiums.

From Washington Post Oct. 21, 2018

Mr. Wickham’s happiness and her own were perforce delayed a little longer, and Mr. Collins’s proposal accepted with as good a grace as she could.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen




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