perforce
Example Sentences
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But such moments aren’t perforce life-altering, and the partners and faculty members weren’t actually wielding the authority of a deity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
That was a closed-loop cemetery system: the nonnative Americans living here were perforce Spanish and Mexican, and Catholic, and often buried in mission graveyards.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024
Methane is a carbon-based molecule, so many of the ingredients for life are perforce there.
From Scientific American • Jul. 6, 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
Only their middle names, which perforce became their given names, were their own.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing perforce
Othello
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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