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perforce

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


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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

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

To advocate placing such information in the public record, Strauss asserted, was perforce an act of disloyalty.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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