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
Massey’s own ancestral holdings, far to the south, were lost to him, so he must needs make an advantageous marriage or resign himself to being no more than a knight of the king’s household.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
