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perforce

[per-fawrs, -fohrs] / pərˈfɔrs, -ˈfoʊrs /


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Methane is a carbon-based molecule, so many of the ingredients for life are perforce there.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 6, 2023

Elizabeth II was perforce a kind of cipher, less a personality than a series of roles, a virtually voiceless princess, a daughter, wife, mother, and at last queen.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2023

Doing so, perforce, would also crush the rebels’ claim that the national government was powerless to halt slavery’s growth and commence its extinction.

From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2020

And even when there is, it would tell you nothing, because the same number of people, perforce, bought.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2018

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

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


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