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
At length, she prompted gently, “If Sir wish his clothes washed, he must needs give them to me in my hand.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
