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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

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




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