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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

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

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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