have no choice

VERB

bite the bullet

Synonyms

WEAK

be forced bow to fate cross the Rubicon face the music know no alternative leap into the breach pay the piper seize the opportunity stand up and take it suck it up swallow the pill take it take one's medicine take the rap

VERB

must

Synonyms

STRONG

have need

WEAK

be compelled be destined be directed be doomed be driven be made be necessitated be obliged be one's fate be ordered be required got to have got to have to must needs pushed to the wall

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The full tax relief, if implemented, might not materialize for drivers, because suppliers may have some pricing power, while drivers have no choice but to pay the pump price, Smetters said.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

At the same time, “As the money dries up because of the blockade, we may find that more and more folks have no choice but to mobilize politically,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Still, there are moments when you have no choice but to use a facility that looks far from clean.

From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026

If oil prices remain high, airlines will have no choice but to pass on the price increases to customers, analysts say.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

And yet, we shall succeed because we must—we have no choice in the matter—to fight or to submit to the greatest indignities and outrages.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

have no choice

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