perforce

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Kirsten Menger-Anderson’s new book, “The Expert of Subtle Revisions,” does just that, while exploring the way history is perforce affected by how it is told and who does the telling.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 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

Only their middle names, which perforce became their given names, were their own.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez